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Floppy and hard disk fixes for IBM PS/2 model 30-286#6823

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Summary

This PR makes the following changes to the IBM PS/2 model 30-286:

  • Pull down keyboard input port pin 6 to allow PS/2 model 30-286 rev. 0 BIOS to recognize drive A as 1.44M floppy
  • WRITE VERIFY command in IBM PS/1 XTA disk controller should write data to disk (unlike READ VERIFY command), fixes NetWare 2.2 ZTEST and COMPSURF failing to verify disk for bad sectors

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IBM PS/2 model 30-286 schematics: https://www.ardent-tool.com/docs/pdf/schematics/m30-286_sch.pdf

@OBattler OBattler merged commit ca61f28 into 86Box:master Feb 19, 2026
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