[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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