Large ESDI Disks

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Feb 1 20:06:26 2002

Gee! I've never seen one that SMALL in the flesh, though I guess I read that
there had been such things. The smallest I ever owned was 150, and that was
just because it was half-height, meaning it would fit in the bay above the
floppies ...

Unfortunately for the PC community, ESDI controllers sophisticated enough to
have sector translation schemes that would allow a drive to have more than
1024 cylinders were few and far between. None of the WD controllers I have
used had that feature, and it would have been really helpful. The Lark
Associates controller (smoked some time back) had the ability to masquerade a
drives as two physical drives, in which case it wouldn't use the second data
cable, sadly, but that allowed you to use a Maxtor 4380 or something of that
ilk. It didn't do much for the 8760, though.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: RE: Large ESDI Disks


> I'm curious too, haven't seen an ESDI bigger than 120mb personally.
>
> => -----Original Message-----
> => From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> => [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Ken Seefried
> => Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:58 PM
> => To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> => Subject: Large ESDI Disks
> =>
> =>
> => From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
> => >
> => >There are still ESDI disks being made. I think the biggest one
> => >right now is 3.04 GB.
> => >
> =>
> => Who makes them?
> =>
> => Ken
> =>
> =>
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 20:06:26 GMT

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