I have a computer with the exact same case, except it has a Pentium MMX in it. the motherboard also has built in USB1.0, which takes up one of the expansion slots for the plugs. I have no idea who manufactured it. it just has an Intel badge on it.
@linuxlove4004 Ah, so it was one of the later Conners, made when Seagate bought them out. Probably a member of the Cabo family, with I believe a 4500 rpm spindle. I take you ran into a stiction issue with it, giving how you mentioned you had to hit the drive once to get it to spin :P
@Jivemaster2005 To make things more confusing, PC Chips also made another motherboard infamous for fake cache, but the two I used had real honest-to-goodness cache on it (verified using Cachechk.exe). And another sample of said board that I saw had the fake "WRITE BACK" cache chips on it (soldered to the board of course so you couldn't remove them.) PC Chips, what a racket they were back then.
I have a computer with the exact same case, except it has a Pentium MMX in it. the motherboard also has built in USB1.0, which takes up one of the expansion slots for the plugs. I have no idea who manufactured it. it just has an Intel badge on it.
Tr3vor42532 1 month ago
conner made HDDs for seagate way back when. then seagate bought em out.
IamFat32 3 months ago
By the way, is that a Conner hard drive? It kind of looks like one. Conner was one of my favorite early HD brands!
Eep386 1 year ago
even though the label says Seagate, the BIOS screen identifies it at a Conner drive.
linuxlove4004 1 year ago
@linuxlove4004 Ah, so it was one of the later Conners, made when Seagate bought them out. Probably a member of the Cabo family, with I believe a 4500 rpm spindle. I take you ran into a stiction issue with it, giving how you mentioned you had to hit the drive once to get it to spin :P
Eep386 1 year ago
ahh...the infamous PC CHIPS motherboard with fake L2 cache
Use to have the exact motherboard but mine had the fake L2 coaster cache module
Jivemaster2005 1 year ago
@Jivemaster2005 To make things more confusing, PC Chips also made another motherboard infamous for fake cache, but the two I used had real honest-to-goodness cache on it (verified using Cachechk.exe). And another sample of said board that I saw had the fake "WRITE BACK" cache chips on it (soldered to the board of course so you couldn't remove them.) PC Chips, what a racket they were back then.
Eep386 1 year ago