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At 12:50 PM 7/20/96 -0400, John H. Kim wrote: >On Sat, 20 Jul 1996 keith_mishkind@colpal.com wrote: >> EIDE is a different standard with different pin >> outs. >I think they put out a new standard when I wasn't looking. > >What I meant by EIDE was the hard drive hid the physical layout so >you could have >1024 cylinders. Both the 540 and 810 MB drives have >> 1024 cylinders. For them to work in the 750 series, you need >an updated (Thinkpad) BIOS. The term for this was originally EIDE >since it extended the number of cylinders you could have in an IDE >drive. I had no idea things had developed to the point of being >physically different from IDE drives. They haven't - I don't know what Keith is talking about, but it sure doesn't intersect with my reality. I often put the newest IDE drives in older Valuepoints at work. I have to put in an enhanced BIOS card to let them use drives of >540M, but that certainly doesn't change the PINOUTS. Perhaps Keith knows of some underground and secret movement making some hitherto unknown technology. >-- >John H. Kim "I stop for red traffic lights" -- bumper sticker >jokim@mit.edu commissioned by the City of Boston as part of a >MIT Sea Grant campaign to shed its reputation for bad drivers. > > Donald Alan Whiteside, Official Computer Dork for the 1996 Olympics "Penis ownership is not a prerequisite to technological competence" - Me.