24 Nov
2006
24 Nov
'06
9:43 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Does anyone really care about the smaller (<2GB)
3.5" drives anymore?
I've been wiping and recycling the ones that I have--is this a
mistake? I've still got a few old <1GB Conner drives if anyone's
interested. Some <4GB WD's and Quantums also.
Seagate Medalists of < 2GB are of interest to owners of IBM PC/RT
systems. The RT's original storage is ESDI, but a "dumb" IDE controller
works perfectly with an IDE drive, IFF the drive speaks the entire IDE
(not EIDE if I remember right) command set. The early Medalists are the
only well-known drive that does. I forget which command the others
ignore, but it's critical to operation in the RT.
My RT has an install of AIX v2.2 on a 650MB Medalist, so I can vouch
for this. And I'd pay shipping and "a token fee" for a couple more.
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