1 Feb
2002
1 Feb
'02
12:06 p.m.
Gee! I've never seen one that SMALL in the flesh, though I guess I read that
there had been such things. The smallest I ever owned was 150, and that was
just because it was half-height, meaning it would fit in the bay above the
floppies ...
Unfortunately for the PC community, ESDI controllers sophisticated enough to
have sector translation schemes that would allow a drive to have more than
1024 cylinders were few and far between. None of the WD controllers I have
used had that feature, and it would have been really helpful. The Lark
Associates controller (smoked some time back) had the ability to masquerade a
drives as two physical drives, in which case it wouldn't use the second data
cable, sadly, but that allowed you to use a Maxtor 4380 or something of that
ilk. It didn't do much for the 8760, though.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblakeman(a)kih.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Large ESDI Disks
I'm curious too, haven't seen an ESDI bigger
than 120mb personally.
=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
=> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ken Seefried
=> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:58 PM
=> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
=> Subject: Large ESDI Disks
=>
=>
=> From: Julius Sridhar <vance(a)ikickass.org>
=> >
=> >There are still ESDI disks being made. I think the biggest one
=> >right now is 3.04 GB.
=> >
=>
=> Who makes them?
=>
=> Ken
=>
=>