[mythtv-users] OT: best way to connect IDE harddrives and dvd
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Mon Sep 18 18:04:29 UTC 2006
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:29:21AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:53 AM, chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:
> > (2) Unlike the ST-506 days, the CHS values reported by IDE drives
> > are totally fake. Telling fdisk that you want a partition to be in
> > the middle of the drive doesn't actually mean it will be on the
> > middle cylinder.
> BTW - wasn't that ST-502 not 506? or is my early-onset Alzhiemer's
> kicking in ? I assume you meant the interface with the two separate
> cables for control and data, sometimes mistakenly called "MFM", which
> is an encoding method not an interface.
Time to start those Alzheimer's drugs. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-506
The other common interfaces in the early 80's were ST-412 and ESDI.
You're right, though, that MFM was an encoding and not an interface.
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