First post, by Vivien
I have a IBM PS/2 65 SX. It has a 16Mhz Intel 386SX processor, 6 MB of RAM, and a 60 MB SCSI hard drive. It was actually my main PC for a long while until about 2001 when I upgraded to a more modern machine. Recently, I took it out of storage and tried to power it on. Even though it has been almost twenty years - it turned on. I then got a series of errors which I identified as the RTC chip battery having gone bad. I ordered a new DS1287 RTC chip from eBay and it arrived today.
While the new RTC chip seems to work fine, I unfortunately now have a new series of errors which I don't know how to fix.
Error code = 00065000
Diskette drive B is not running at the correct speed.
Error - 1 SCSI Fixed Disk(s)
Error Code = 0210607U
Vendor ID = ???????? Return Code = 9319
Device Inquiry operation failed.
Warning
SCSI device configuration could not find the fixed disks that were previously configured.
The strange thing is that I can hear the hard drive spin up during configuration so I know that it isn't completely broken. I also happen to have two MCA SCSI cards; both pass the reference disk system test, and neither allows the hard drive to work. I've tried reseating the cards and disconnecting and reconnecting all the cables. Unfortunately without success.
Does anyone have any ideas?