[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

[Jack Richards]

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.

 


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
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