On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
The method I use is to hook the drive up to an
exerciser and check for
. . .
I find this to be the most reliable way of distinguishing between
different drives...
I used to think that checking model number was reliable identification.
Until I encountered a drive labelled TM 100-4, that turned out to be a
100-4M. It actually was a serendipitous occurence, since I had been
having trouble finding any 100 TPI drives.