>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Guy N. via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> The new sysadmin at work is clearing out closets full of junk^H^H^H^H >> cool old stuff accumulated by the previous sysadmin. There's a big >> carton full of PATA hard disks. Most of them are in the 4.3 GB - 20 GB >> range, a few larger, a few smaller. > > On 26 March 2018 at 05:29, Adrian Stoness via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > those are the ibm server ones right?
No. PATA means parallel ATA, that is, EIDE. It covered all EIDE versions, original 40-wire 16 MB/s and the later 80-wire 33, 66, 100, & 133 MB/sec standards. In theory it also embraces pre-*E* IDE, that is, IDE, the old sub-540MB non-LBA IDE drives. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053