IDE and LBA support... Non-PC

On 03/24/2014 11:55 AM, Al Kossow wrote: I have a large collection of known good old drives to pick from and that general answer does not hold for the Quantum prodrives LPS105 series below 500mb and my collection includes a good handful of common sizes in the 60-340mb range! I have a cross section of drives that range from small 20mb IDE though 500mb amounting to about 80-100 drives with a large portion of them in the 100-500mb range. So I'm not concerned with market drying up as my supply is sorta guaranteed. The problem is without testing every drive not all (many) of the drives less than 500mb supported LBA. Some had alternate structures available but without LBA. It's in the same category as 8bit transfer support... in the spec not often seen in the wild. While there are random claims of drive less than 500mb having LBA support data sheets with info that might confirm it are vague or blank on that information. For PCs this was a non issue before 512mb. For drives in the 500-1gb range there were three schemes, CHS with artificial geometry support, Large bit shift, LBA. I may have to read the feature data on all of them and see... a horribly time consuming task. Or just save them for random use and go CF as I can still find small ones (64mb to 1gb)., Allison