On 1999-01-29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Pete wrote:
hello
more info : looking at the mother board from the front of the computer
it has two conecters on the lower right hand corner of the mother board, one
has the flopy conected to it and the 44 pin conecter is paralell to it right
abuv it. On the other IBM 286 es the flopy conects to a conecter on the
upper left hand side of the mother board and the hard drive conecter is on
the uper right hand side of the mother board.
Yes, the hard drive ribben has a card edge conecter at the end of it.
The number found on the case is 8500 30-286 .
I wonder if there is an adapter I could plugin to the 44pin hard drive
conecter that would have an ide interface on it.
Pete
>> Hi
>> I have an IBM 286, it looks like a newer version of the model
>>30. What I am trying to find out about is the conecter for the
>>hard drive on the mother board. I can plug in an 20 mb drive
>>from an other IBM 286 computer and it boots and recognises the
>>drive OK. I want to put a larger drive in there, there is one a
>>3.5 inch bay available for another drive. Does any one know what
>>kind of conecter this is on the mother board?
>> The ide drives I have come across have 40 pins, if I counted
>>the pins rite on the IBM mother board, it has 44 pins.
>Look on the front, lower right of the face of the machine and there
>should be a Type/Serial tag there. Drop me a direct note or one
>here and I can tell you more about the machine. I have a feeling
>it's going to be an 8530-A21 machine, in which case the 44 pin
>motherboard connector and cable will end in a card edge connector
>that goes ont he back of a standard PS/2 style MCA drive. It is
>probably MFM if the drive itself shows a type number, probably a
>type 30 for a 20mb or a 33 for a 30mb.
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