Date   : Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:14:26 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: BBC IDE Drive compatibility list 

I went through a large pile of IDE drives today and tested them
with the IDE interface. The list is on my website:
 
Summary information:
  http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/IDE/Drives.txt
 
Full information returned by IDE_Identify:
  http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/IDE/DriveData
 
The IDE_Identify information is found with the updated IDEDump
program at http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/IDE
 
I used an 8-bit interface, so the device strings have every second
character missing. For instance, "Conner Peripherals" comes out as
".o.n.r.P.r.p.e.a.s. ".
 
Even with an 8-bit interface the missing high bytes of the disk
size and cylinder count can be calculated from the non-missing
bytes of the other.
 
Some drives tested don't give "sensible" results, and their format
capacity has been calculated by doing trail seeks for the end of
the disk.
 
Feel free to email me with details of drives found to work.
 
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