Re: Vulcan drive info

["David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

I believe both Seagate and JVC also produced 8 bit IDE drives. JVC by far
produced the largest capacity drive (that I am aware) of 60MB. Seagate's 8
bit IDE drives were suffixed with either AX or X (don't remember which.)
These info came out of Corporate Data Center's (which had name change first
to Disk Drive Depot, then Dot Com Depot) drive reference book ('91 edition.)
Nifty book for looking up geometry of old drives. The reason I kind of
remember was because I had an Innerdrive back then and was contemplating on
replacing the mechanism (but never quite gotten around to it.)

"left_the_scene" <postmaster@nyc-strip-clubs.com> wrote in message
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> Actually, 8 bit IDE was developed AFTER 16 bit ide. It was done to make
> IDE easier to implement on 8088/8086 8 bit bus PC's.

> ALL of the 8 bit drive I have ever seen in the PC world were western
> digital (or Tandon before WD bought them). WD even made one 40 meg that
> was switchable via jumpers between 8 and 16 bit modes.