Date: 04 Aug 1998 13:37:09 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum disk info needed. Message-ID: <xzpn29lasgq.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Josef Grosch's message of "Mon, 3 Aug 1998 00:21:08 -0700" References: <19980803002108.A16772@mooseriver.com>
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Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> writes: > I recently was given an old quantum disk, model xp34300w. Since Quantum's > web page seems to be down (did'nt they go out of business?) does anybody > have any information about these disk ? Very simple: XP means Quantum, 3 means 41 mm tall, 4300 means 4300 million bytes (not megabytes), and W means SCSI Wide interface. Seagate uses the same numbering scheme (with ST instead of XP); Conner (which now belongs to Seagate) used a similar scheme, but encoded drive height as a letter IIRC (ISTR P meant 25 mm, but I might be totally off the track here). I've never cared too much about WD, Maxtor, Micropolis (now defunct) or IBM (which are the only other large disk manufacturers I can think of). ISTR Seagate has a web page that explains how to read model numbers; it's quite possible that Quantum has one too. DES (who has an XP34550W, and wouldn't call an XP34300W "old") -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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