Date: Tue, 18
Jan 2011 09:13:08 -0600
From: Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: SA4000 [was: Disc drive READY output -- any standards?]
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Tom Gardner wrote:
I believe it was the first HDD of any sort to use
a floppy disk type of
interface. It was followed by the SA1000 interface, which in turn
became the ubiquitous industry standard ST506 interface. Since it was
first, it is not surprising that it had problems,
many of which it inherited from the Shugart floppy interfaces
it was trying to resemble so as to reduce design in times.
Was it really done that
way because it was supposed to look just like a
big floppy at the interface level?