5 May
2005
5 May
'05
4:57 p.m.
[ESDI drives]
I think I handled a 600 in a Novell server once.
In the early 90's, I was a huge fan of ESDI drives. The largest
I ever dealt with were 1.3 Gig Hitachi's.
The larger-capacity drives generally had higher data rates and most
WD-based PC-clone controllers couldn't handle them. I think the largest
were targetted towards ESDI-based RAID arrays. They were built like
Bentley's - solid!
The ESDI interface was sort-of like a slightly scaled down SMD interface.
The drives did seek counting, and there were medium-level commands that
the controller could send to a drive.
Tim.