Quantum Lightning 540 AT Hard Disk

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Wed Jul 30 05:43:00 2003

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Doc wrote:

> >>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.
>
> 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
Received on Wed Jul 30 2003 - 05:43:00 BST

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