On 2000-12-04 22:55, Maurice Verhagen wrote: >last week I wrote about my broken IBM disk in here. >the 6gb travelstar I wanted to buy wasn't available anymore. >So I looked for another disk and found the travelstar 20GN (10 gb) space. >I saw the interface was ATA-5 although the same IBM page said the >interface was ATA-4. >(http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/travel/32gh30gt20gndata.htm) > >I wondered what this interface is. Does ATA-5 exist? I now have an >thinkpad 390e with ATA-4 interface which supports 9.5mm disks, this is my >only chance, or doesn't it work at all? > >please, could anybody make this clear to me?
Things like "ATA-5" will probably never be clear to anyone because such terms are mainly marketting terms and are widely mis-used. The main thing is that ATA/IDE drives are always backward compatible. The latest ATA-100 disk may not work in a 1989 AT, but it will work in machines that are 2 or 3 generations behind the current technology. The 390 series is a farily recent series of machines, I doubt that you would have any problems. I expect that the drive in question would work fine in an old 385 series. My current Thinkpad (T20) came with a 6G drive. I've installed a 10G drive, but after it started making funny sounds I've been considering a new >25G IBM drive. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
