who invented IDE? (Chuck Guzis)

[Sridhar Ayengar]

CaptnZilog at aol.com wrote:
> No matter what I tried, they would not work together either way around as  
> master/slave.  Looking at the model#, one was "rev-A" and one was  "rev-B".   We 
> wound up throwing a Maxtor 80MB in with it - with  *either* Conner drive and 
> a Maxtor, it worked fine.   Found it quite  humorous that two drives from the 
> same manufacturer wouldn't work together, but  both worked fine with a 
> competitors drive.

That doesn't surprise me.  Back in the day, I had no end of trouble 
getting Conner drives (of various size -- mostly matched models) of the 
same revision to sit on a bus together and behave.

Peace...  Sridhar