First post, by Susanin79
Greetings,
Recently bought nice Olivetti M290-20 with the late 286 motherboard. But this PC came to me without the HDD. I was unable to find a proper documentation for the exact model, and the documentation for similar models didn't get the clear answer.
It is no doubts that model can support only 40, 85 or 120 MB IDE hard drives (as there is only one possible choices in the BIOS).
The manual for the M290-25 model has this data (BIOS 2.01):
40MB - 980Cyl 5H 17S (W.D. AC 140, QUANTUM LPS 52 AT, CONNER CP 3044 or CP 3046F, QUANTUM ELS42 AT )
85MB - 977Cyl 10H 17S (W.D. CAVIAR AC 280, CONNER CP 30084E, QUANTUM ELS85 AT)
120MB - 762Cyl 8H 39S (W.D. AC-2120, CONNER CP 30126, QUANTUM ELS127 AT)
The manual for the M290-30 model has this data (BIOS 2.01):
40MB - 1219Cyl 2H 512S (Quantum LPS 53 AT, CONNER CP3046, W.D. AC 140)
120MB - 1524Cyl 4H 512S (W.D. AC-2120, CONNER CP 30126)
May be somebody have the same machine with the HDD installed and can share the model of that HDD installed?
Here is the dump of BIOS installed on my PC (version 3.07)
Thank you!