HARD DISK DRIVE GUIDE
References
Last updated: 6/1/00
1. The
Computer Museum History Center Interesting site with pictures.
2. A
history of IBM "firsts" in storage technology
3. COMPUTING
MACHINES
4. Disk
drives take eventful spin by George Rostky
5. Technical
Committee T13 AT Attachment
Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Sixth Edition, Scott
Mueller, Que (Believe it is in the tenth edition now; more detail than
presented here)
BASICS
OF MAGNETIC RECORDING
Interesting
stuff about boot sectors.
The
Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA FAQ
The
Anatomy of Hard Disk Design by Albert Dayes (detailed stuff,
but interesting)
Whys
and wherefores of formatting hard drives by Brian K. Lewis (short
and well-written)
Basic
Description of Banded Sector Servo IBM
No-ID
sector format IBM
The
era of giant magnetoresistive heads by Jim Belleson, IBM Storage
Systems Division, & Ed Grochowski, IBM Almaden Research Center
Ultra
ATA/66 Extends Existing Technology While Increasing Performance and Data
Integrity Western Digital
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