From: anca3000@gmail.com   
      
   A quarta-feira, 6 de maio de 1998 à(s) 08:00:00 UTC+1, Louis Ohland escreveu:   
   >  Brilliant comments from godlike intellects deleted.   
   > > > > Is there a listing of the procedure for replacing a SCSI drive for   
   > > > > this machine. I would think it should be straightforward, but since   
   > > > > this is a machine with an IML file (or whatever it's called) on disk   
   > The IBM HMM has the 9556 OB6 and OBA listed as IML.   
   > The 8556 14x, 24x, 043, 044, 055 are non-IML (supposedly)   
   > Not that IBM would EVER do something odd and not tell the customers....   
      
      
   Hello,   
      
   It is my first time here!   
   Just  to let you know that the 8556 24X is also IML   
   I have one. From the factory, it is medialess (without the hard drive and   
   floppy). It used a MCA network card or something like that to boot and work.   
   But, in all of documentation that I read, It should be possible to "convert"   
   it to a "regular" PS/2 8556 56SX by adding the floppy and the HDD.   
   So, I added both floppy (2.88MB) and a SCSI HDD, but I am having a lot of   
   trouble to restore (or should I say, create) an IML partition on HDD.   
   It is perfectly recognised by the tools in the reference disk, it formats ok,   
   but no IML restore...   
   It suspect that is because the HDD is 2GB in size. But it is the only one that   
   I have!   
      
   Do you know if there is a way to make this a working machine?   
      
   By the way, the boot is not possible not even from the floppy drive!   
   Because of the model 24X, it says that the boot is only possible from the   
   "network" card or from a SCSI drive with ID 6.   
      
   Do you know if the ROM file is swapable by other model that do not have this   
   limitation?   
      
      
   Thanks a lot.   
      
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