grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) (08/20/90)
In article <12736@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastje@prism.gatech.EDU (John Adair) writes: >Is this drive SCSI, ESDI or something else? > > I've worked with a CP-342, and it's 40 MB. I dunno 'bout the 344. The interface is IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics). Neat concept. All the 'guts' of the controller is in the drive. A puny interface card makes the whole thing look like a 16-bit AT-style hard disk controller, which some people call an 'MFM controller' [MFM is an encoding scheme, not a type of controller]. This is the advantage of IDE: More and more manufacturers are putting IDE interfaces into their motherboards, so if you want to add a drive later on, you literally just plug it in with a 40 pin cable. You don't have to buy a controller card.