[Gllug] Old i386 with "Winchester" drive

[Stephen Harker]

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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