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Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic?

From Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic?
Followup-To comp.os.linux.hardware
Date 2014-12-08 17:48 +0100
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On Monday 08 December 2014 11:53, Richard Kettlewell conveyed the 
following to comp.os.linux.hardware...

> Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> writes:
>
>> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIK it hasn’t been true since the 1980s.  The “integrated” in
>>> Integrated Drive Electronics (i.e. the original name for PATA)
>>> refers to the integration of the controller into the drive.
>>
>> No, not the controller.  That which is integrated into the drive are
>> the most elementary drive electronics ─ voltage regulators and such ─
>> which is not the same thing as an actual disk controller.
> 
> Obviously you’re guessing.  Have a look at the ATA-1 spec, the
> commands are things like ‘read sector’ and ‘write sector’, not ‘move
> disk head’.

I did say that I misworded that part.  And yes, I don't know *all* the 
details, but I wasn't aware that this was a requirement for me to be 
allowed to speak about the differences between SCSI and ATA on Usenet.

-- 
= Aragorn =

         http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157

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Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Jax <remove.bear.bottoms1@gmail.com> - 2014-12-06 14:44 +0000
  Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-06 09:44 -0600
    Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-12-06 19:37 +0000
      Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-06 14:54 -0600
      Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Jax <remove.bear.bottoms1@gmail.com> - 2014-12-06 22:50 +0000
        Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-12-06 23:13 +0000
      Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-07 04:57 -0600
        Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-07 16:52 +0100
          Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-07 09:59 -0600
            Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-07 17:10 +0100
              Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-07 10:48 -0600
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-07 18:37 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-07 12:28 -0600
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-12-07 21:46 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-07 22:27 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-12-08 00:36 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-12-08 09:26 +0000
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-08 11:31 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-12-08 10:53 +0000
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-12-08 17:48 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-12-08 17:28 +0000
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2014-12-08 08:43 -0600
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-12-09 11:02 +0100
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-12-09 23:35 +0000
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-09 17:43 -0600
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-09 17:54 -0600
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-12-10 20:22 +0000
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-12-10 20:27 +0000
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-10 16:40 -0600
                Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-12-10 11:06 +0100
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    Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Jax <remove.bear.bottoms1@gmail.com> - 2014-12-06 22:51 +0000
  Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2014-12-06 13:02 -0600
  Re: Bad Hitachi disk.... how so from a pic? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-12-06 16:04 -0800

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