RadRacer203
Veteran Member
Just picked up a nice PS/2 model 60 on ebay to use as the base for my Academic System clone. First things first I wanted to get it up and working again and check that everything is ok. Everything checks out except the hard drive isn't recognized. I have the original drive which sounds healthy but is untested and a Microscience drive that was working perfectly in the Zenith parts machine I pulled it out of. I'll likely be getting a SCSI card in the near future but for the moment I'd like to get it going with an ESDI drive. Speedstor doesn't seem to like the IBM controller very much and the bios is seeing that the controller is installed but that's it. I do have a factory PS/2 service manual that says the controller has to be matched to the drive. I have a 70mb drive and this manual is saying I need part number 72x8519 while it has a 72x8588 installed. Any suggestions? Unfortunately I don't have any other controllers on hand to try, this is my only microchannel PS/2 aside from my model 85 but that has onboard scsi so not very helpful