Differences between current version and revision by previous author of MFM.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Revision, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Sunday, September 21, 2003 4:27:20 pm | by CraigBox | |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:43:57 pm | by JamieCurtis | Revert |
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
The proper name for this interface is actually ST-506/ST-412.
This is a very old interface, used to connect storage devices to a motherboard.
-This interface predates [IDE], and is not used anymore for harddrives. It was developed in the 1980's by [
Seagate]
.
+This interface predates [IDE], and is not used anymore for harddrives. It was developed in the 1980's by Seagate, a storage technology company
.
Typical harddrive sizes are 5MB, 10MB and 20MB.
[MFM] actually refers to the encoding method used for storing data on the disk. [MFM] is an acronym for "Modified Frequency Modulation".
