From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 4 04:37:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA09037 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 04:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA09032 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 04:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id NAA23611; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:37:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:37:10 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantum disk info needed. References: <19980803002108.A16772@mooseriver.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 04 Aug 1998 13:37:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: Josef Grosch's message of "Mon, 3 Aug 1998 00:21:08 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA09033 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Grosch 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