Category Archives: LSOED

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part I: ST-506 Drives Have Programmable Step Rate

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Michal Necasek

More or less by accident I found myself writing a very basic DOS utility to read data off of an IDE drive. It started out by just issuing the IDENTIFY DRIVE command and capturing the data, but adding the ability … Continue reading →

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