On 7/21/21 2:42 PM, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: > On 7/21/21 12:51 PM, r.stricklin via cctech wrote: >> >> >>> Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* >>> other than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I >>> can't think of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early >>> vendor's drives were the same height as a "half height" 5.25" drive. >>> >> >> CDC 94208-51, 62, -75. The -51 is Compaq drive type 17. > > Interesting! Were they built as IDE drives from the ground up, or were they > ST506/412 types with an additional board grafted on doing the interface > conversion?
Yes, they were all part of the CDC Wren series--ST506, ESDI, IDE (although referred to as ATA in the literature) and SCSI. I'm still using a SCSI 330MB WREN in one of my boxes. --Chuck
