Questions tagged [hard-disk]
Hard disk drives: hardware, connection, low-level format and drivers.
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Cloning old Quantum drive using 68 pin to 50 pin adapter
I’m now trying to clone a 50 pin SCSI drive on XW8000 machine. The cable is 68 pin SCSI and has a terminator at the end, my dd command is able to copy the drive to USB, but whenever I try to restore ...
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When was the end of the floppy-only IBM PC clone?
Can we pinpoint in what year the number of IBM-compatible PCs (whether original IBM machines or clones) sold without a hard disk drive became so negligible that almost all new commercial software, ...
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What was the hardware-level data format on IBM 1316 or 2316 disk packs?
A description of the hardware-level track format of the IBM media used on the BESM-6 I've found is as follows (translated by Google with minimal corrections):
Track header structure:
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Compaq Contura 430C replacement hard drive
I have a working Compaq Contura 430C laptop, but its hard disk is really aging and making noises when under load. I don't want to stress it any further and thinking of replacement and preserve the ...
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Micropolis 1325 ST506 MFM drive giving "Address mismatch"
I am trying to recover an old mini-machine that is using a Micropolis 1325 drive, and I am successfully reading parts of the drive. I am trying to recover as much as data from the drive, and ...
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iRMX bootsector on a iRMX partition how to clone?
I have an old year 2000 instrument which has a 340MB hard drive. I am trying to clone the hard drive but I am having major issues.
First the instrument uses iRMX and MSDOS the bios is using the CHS ...
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Trying to install Mac OS 9.2.1 on an iMac G3 (slot loader) but no hard drive detected
I recently acquired an iMac G3 (slot loader) and I am trying to install Mac OS 9.2.1 on it. OS installer seems to boot to Mac OS just fine. The problem is when I try to run the installer, it doesn't ...
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Did mechanical hard drives often malfunction in high elevation places such as Bogota?
Bogota, Colombia has an elevation of 2,640m. A cable car in the city (Teleférico de Monserrate) can also take one to an elevation of 3,152m. Given that regular hard drives were usually pressurized to ...
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How did StorageTek STC 4305 use backing HDDs?
StorageTek STC 4305 is often referred as the first SSD. However, from the modern point of view, it looks more like a "hardware-implemented persistent cache", if possible. I mean that it ...
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How did ‘logically-sectored FAT’ work?
While browsing online materials about the FAT file system, I occasionally came across mentions of ‘logically-sectored FAT’. This was apparently some kind of special mode of formatting a hard drive, ...
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I have old hardware; what can I use it for? [closed]
I have two old pieces of hardware: a DVD drive and a hard disk, both from 2004, which I would like to use.
I have a computer made for Windows 7, currently running Windows 98 which would probably run ...
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How to read a 104 MB Conner hard drive from 1990
I am trying to get text files from an old 386SX computer running PCDOS 5.0. I believe the file system is FAT16.
The hard drive specifications are:
Conner Peripherals MODEL (CFS SERIES) CP3104
100 MB
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How did it come that SATA HDDs use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?
SATA HDDs and SSDs use ATA as software protocol for data transmission (on the SATA cable).
SATA CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drives use SCSI.
Please note that AHCI is the protocol used between the SATA controller ...
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When was the CHS (cylinder - head - sector) system invented and what was before it?
There is some information about the CHS (Cylinder/Head/Sector) addressing system and its design flaws and limits. As long as CHS was not compatible with Zone Bit Recording, which became very popular ...
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Do/did mechanical hard drives constantly spin the discs? [closed]
I have to admit that I didn't ever really think about how a hard drive worked until recently. I only had a vague understanding that there was (at least) one hard disc and some kind of "needle&...
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