General
- Harddisks and controllers dictionary
- RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk Drives - technical brief
- References to compagnies that offer storage solutions like A/V harddrives, disk arrays or removeables - from Desktop Video Links
- Storage Review - hard disk tests, information of harddisk products
- Technicians' Guide To PC Hard Disk Subsystems
- What is Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) ?
Hard disk technical specifications
- Harddisk standards
- TheRef - information collection of hard disks and controllers
- The Tech Page from Blue Planet Corporation - Jumpers and Specifications for Every Drive Ever Made
- PC-DISK - escriptions about over 5,000 harddisks, jumpersettings and layouts
SCSI 
- Adaptec 1540/1542 manuals and drivers - very popular ISA bus SCSI controller
- Adaptec SCSI controller information at ftp.funet.fi - information on older Adaptec SCSI controllers
- comp.periphs.SCSI FAQ
- SCSI Connector Contact Assignments
- SCSI Documents at ftp.funet.fi - periodic posting of information archive
- SCSI Trade Association (STA) - white papers, links to SCSI vendors, market information
IDE/ATA
Short history: 1985 Compaq designed a hard disk drive that included its own controller (Western Digital) *at the drive* rather than have the drive's electronics on the interface card or on the motherboard. This was termed IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) and created a device-independent drive, greatly simplifying ISA-bus interface.
General information
- Bus Master DMA Drivers - Just an Illusion - Bus Master DMA Drivers from Intel and Others Are Falsely Inflating Benchmark Results
- IDE disk drive info program with C source - runs under DOS, it might be a good idea to get newest version 2.1
Technical specifications
- ATA (AT Attachment) Rev 3.2
- ATA-3r6 command and hardware specification - in MSWord 6 format
- ATAPI-2r6 command specification - in Postscript format
- ATAPI (re-)writable command specification extension (by Philips) - in pdf format
- ATA-3 X3T10 Working Draft version 6 - draft version of IDE standard, zipped Word document
- IDE Hard disk drive interface specs - zipped Word file from Darrens Odds & Sods page
Floppy disc
- High Capacity Floppy Formatter - for DOS
Removable mass storage
- Iomega Jaz - 1G removable disk
- Iomega Zip Drive - 100M disk drive
- Superdisk - Imation LS-120 disk drive which can handle normal 3.5" diskettes and 120M special diskettes, earlier know also as LS-120
Backup medias
CD-ROM
- alt.cd-rom FAQ - CD-ROM frequenly asked questions and answers
- CD/ROM -- An extension of the CD audio standard - some lecture material on CDROM technique
- CD-ROM Shopper's Guide
- CD-ROM Technical Summary
- CD Rippers - programs to read audio CDs on CD-ROM drive and information what CD-ROM drives work on this
- CD-ROM Digital Audio (CD-DA) introduction
- Exact Audio Copy - audio grabber software for CD-ROM drives
- Windows and Red Book Audio - information on reading audio CDs using CD-ROM
- Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ
- CDROM Recording Software - freeware CDR recording software and firmware upgrades
- OS/2 Warp and (HP) CD Writers F.A.Q.
- Packet Writing
- Primer on CD-R
- Recording your own CD-R's
- Resources for CD-R and Stereo Pairs - software and information in support of CD recording
- Transferring LPs to CDR: Some Advice
- UDF Readers - enable MultiRead CD-ROM drives to read UDF formatted CD-R and CD-RW discs (such as discs written with DirectCD, and DVD titles) under Windows 95 and Mac OS
- ATAPI (IDE) CDROM drives specification - postscript file
- AT Attachment Packet Interface Standards - archive at Kiarchive
- CD-ROM audio connectors - how to connect your CD-ROM output to your soundcard succesfully
- CD-ROM Programming FAQ
- Collection of ATAPI news articles - note that this is large text file, almost 3 megabytes
- Interfacing to Panasonic CD-Roms - details the basic interface to Panasonic/Matsushita/Kotobuki CD-Roms that normally connect to a PC soundcard with a 40 pin IDC cable, old proprietary interface
- MiniDisc DIGITAL Recording FAQ - includes information on CD-ROM S/PDIF output connector
- Technical Committee T13 AT Attachment - includes project documents and many standard draft versions
- The Audio CDR Page - information on making CD-R recordings
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