Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Dave J. Boers wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:02:24PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > Uhm, that wont be new WD drives, as they are exactly the same as
> > IBM drives give or take the label :)
> 
> Huh? That I didn't know. So you're saying that WD and IBM 18 Gb disks are
> the same hardware? 
> 
> My disk: 
> 
> ad0: <WDC AC418000D/J78OA30K> ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master
> ad0: 17206MB (35239680 sectors), 34960 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> ad0: 16 secs/int, 32 depth queue, UDMA33
> 
> I would *love* to hear more about that. Can you point me to some info? 

I read it somewhere that IBM & WD has joined forces on their newer
disks, funny enough WD disks now looks exactly like IBM disks :)

I think this only applies to WD's expert series, but that I'm not
sure of. At least the 9G AC29100D I've got is physically identical
to the IBM drives I've got.

-Søren


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