Hi there
I recently managed to resurrect my 8086-based IBM 8530 -- PS/2 Model 30 (8530-021) – see thread entitled ‘PS/2 Model 30 versus XT power supply’.
The power-supply had failed, but I was able to fire up the system using an ATX power supply with an AT adapter, making sure that pin 2 on the ‘equivalent of the P8 connector’ was grounded .
For some reason the system’s 720-kb floppy drive isn’t working -- well it won't read the start-up disk and 'boots' into IBM basic only. And the original hard disk was removed years ago. So while it powers up I can’t boot into DOS.
Now that I have a power supply (sitting externally at the moment) that could be used to power other components I was wondering whether it would be possible to boot a floppy drive via a floppy controller card (with on-board firmware) in one of the ISA slots?
In addition, which other 8-bit cards would be compatible with this system?
Simon
I recently managed to resurrect my 8086-based IBM 8530 -- PS/2 Model 30 (8530-021) – see thread entitled ‘PS/2 Model 30 versus XT power supply’.
The power-supply had failed, but I was able to fire up the system using an ATX power supply with an AT adapter, making sure that pin 2 on the ‘equivalent of the P8 connector’ was grounded .
For some reason the system’s 720-kb floppy drive isn’t working -- well it won't read the start-up disk and 'boots' into IBM basic only. And the original hard disk was removed years ago. So while it powers up I can’t boot into DOS.
Now that I have a power supply (sitting externally at the moment) that could be used to power other components I was wondering whether it would be possible to boot a floppy drive via a floppy controller card (with on-board firmware) in one of the ISA slots?
In addition, which other 8-bit cards would be compatible with this system?
Simon