All things ESDI

[Liam Proven]

On 5/6/05, shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com
<shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com> wrote:

> In the early 90's, I was a huge fan of ESDI drives.  The largest
> I ever dealt with were 1.3 Gig Hitachi's.

/Wow!/

> The larger-capacity drives generally had higher data rates and most
> WD-based PC-clone controllers couldn't handle them.  I think the largest
> were targetted towards ESDI-based RAID arrays.  They were built like
> Bentley's - solid!

Oh, absolutely.

> The ESDI interface was sort-of like a slightly scaled down SMD interface.

SMD?

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