[Novalug] [Hardware] hardware on the IDE bus

Ed James edjames@greenbelt.com
Wed Feb 11 15:03:11 EST 2009


Typo on the announced label, or maybe it's really a:

    Samsung SpinPoint P80 SP1604N 160 GB Hard Drive

Ed James

Quoting JRR <energy.wwind@cox.net>:

> John Ross wrote;
>
>    NO  The first digit is the form factor for Seagate Drives.  a 3 is a
> 3.5" internal HD.
>    The last character should be a letter,  A = ATA 100;  N = narrow SCSI,
>    LW = wide ultra SCSI.
>
>    first character = 1  =>   2.5" ?  1.8" ?  internal Hdrive.
>
>    leader should be  STxxxx   not SPxxxx.
>
>    The entire label string is invalid because Seagate never built any
> 2.5 or 1.8"
>    narrow SCSI  drives as far as I know....
>
> Mark Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:05:32PM -0500, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>>
>>> seagate 160 megabyte ATA seagate SP1604N harddrive.
>>>
>>
>> didn't know you could still buy 160MB disk drives.  :-)
>>
>>
>






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