29 Jul
2003
29 Jul
'03
10:43 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Doc wrote:
Not only that, but Quantum was the worst about mislabelling drives.
I've seen several sub-1GB Quantum IDE drives with SCSI jumper settings
on the label, or vice versa, and many with the wrong size and geometry.
So there isn't any reliable way of knowing the drive geometry on older IDE
drives? Another reason for me to not use IDE whenever possible. I think
the only machine I have that has IDE in it is my Powerbook.
Peace... Sridhar
The older drives have the settings printed on the top
of the drive cyl
heads sectors etc
True, and sometimes whats printed on the drive does not match what the
drive reports to the BIOS. Of course, sometimes people would use
settings from a book of hard drive settings, especially when the drive
was already installed. The settings printed in such a book don't
always match whats printed on the drive or what the drive reports to
the BIOS.