External USB harddrives

[Steve P]

I bought one of the cheap Fry's Electronics kits to salvage harddrives from
old computers with bad motherboards. My idea was to clean off all the old
embarrassing files and use them for rescue disks on my current machines.

Some of them work, and some do not fit. An example of one that works is a
Quantum Maverick Prodrive, which has a notch cut out of the top of the data
cable. An example of one that does not fit is a Micropolis model 4110, which
has a wider data cable pin array without a corresponding upper notch. What
are the names of these 2 types of harddrives?

 

[GT]

I bought one of the cheap Fry's Electronics kits to salvage harddrives from
old computers with bad motherboards. My idea was to clean off all the old
embarrassing files and use them for rescue disks on my current machines.

Some of them work, and some do not fit. An example of one that works is a
Quantum Maverick Prodrive, which has a notch cut out of the top of the
data cable. An example of one that does not fit is a Micropolis model
4110, which has a wider data cable pin array without a corresponding upper
notch. What are the names of these 2 types of harddrives?

If the second has a different sized data connector, then perhaps it is a
SCSI drive? If you search the web for the drive names, you will see the
problem:

Micropolis model 4110 - Fast SCSI-2:
http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/informatique/drives/micropolis/new/4110.html

The Quantum drive could be IDE or SCSI, whaat is the rest of the name? 80AT,
LPSxxx etc:
http://www.campbelltechnical.com/quantum.html

 

[Steve P]

If the second has a different sized data connector, then perhaps it is a
SCSI drive? If you search the web for the drive names, you will see the
problem:

Micropolis model 4110 - Fast SCSI-2:
http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/informatique/drives/micropolis/new/4110.html

The Quantum drive could be IDE or SCSI, whaat is the rest of the name?
80AT, LPSxxx etc:
http://www.campbelltechnical.com/quantum.html

I'll do that when I get home tonight. But it occurs to me that I don't
really need to know. I'll just measure the width of the data connecter and
avoid the wider ones that don't connect.

 

[Steve P]

If the second has a different sized data connector, then perhaps it is a
SCSI drive? If you search the web for the drive names, you will see the
problem:

Micropolis model 4110 - Fast SCSI-2:
http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/informatique/drives/micropolis/new/4110.html

The Quantum drive could be IDE or SCSI, whaat is the rest of the name?
80AT, LPSxxx etc:
http://www.campbelltechnical.com/quantum.html

Yah! It is SCSI. I thought that came after IDE, but I was wrong.

Its too old for anything.

It goes straight into the blue bin.