2006-01-13 10:00:26

by jeff shia

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Subject: Is there any hard disk standard?

Hello,everyone!

Many companies produce hard disks,Is there any hard disk standard?Or
where can I
get the standard?


Jeff


Subject: Re: Is there any hard disk standard?

On 1/13/06, jeff shia <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,everyone!
>
> Many companies produce hard disks,Is there any hard disk standard?Or
> where can I
> get the standard?

ATA: http://www.t13.org (seems to be down at the moment)
SCSI: http://www.t10.org
SerialATA: http://www.serialata.org

or use http://www.google.com

2006-01-13 10:43:32

by Fawad Lateef

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Subject: Re: Is there any hard disk standard?

On 1/13/06, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/13/06, jeff shia <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Many companies produce hard disks,Is there any hard disk standard?Or
> > where can I
> > get the standard?
>
> ATA: http://www.t13.org (seems to be down at the moment)
> SCSI: http://www.t10.org
> SerialATA: http://www.serialata.org
>
> or use http://www.google.com

Adding some explanation in Bartlomiej reply :

The standards are related to bus on which the device (hard disk in
your case) are attached ! As HDD can be connected to IDE/ATA, SCSI or
SATA or so on .... so they are the standard for connectivity between
the device and system ... And the device (like HDD) need to provide
that standard interface for connectivity but can do what-ever they
like internally through its firmware or driver (CMIIW)

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Fawad Lateef