[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

[Stephen Harker]

Jack Richards wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk>:
> 
> 
>>John Winters wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:50, Richard Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>According to the web, and this I did not know before, "Winchester" was
>>>>the name of an early hard drive technology developed by IBM.
>>>
>>>
>>>At (IIRC) their Winchester research labs - hence the name.
>>>
>>>Also, although my memory is definitely slightly hazy in this area, I
>>>seem to remember it's a particular kind of HDD.  A Winchester is a
>>>semi-sealed unit, unlike the removable washing-machine type of HDD.
>>
>>I thinks also, this is where the device name "wd" for IDE drives in *BSD 
>>comes from = "Winchester Disk".
>>
>>ie. /dev/wd0, /dev/wd1 etc...
>>
>>SteveH
> IIRC, not winchester, but western digital after the original chipsets used and 
> developed by Western Digital.
> 
> Who remembers ms debug and the g = D800:0004 hack to execute low level 
> firmware formats on the controller cards ( or course this was esdi and mfm )
> 
> Also, winchester came from the 3030, winchester rifle introduced at the same 
> time as the 3350 Disk from IBM ( capacity 30MB ). IBM assumed that you would 
> buy them in pairs hence the nickname Winchester.

Aah. Crap. I knew it was something like that. Sorry.

SteveH
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