[dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

Arthur,

Is the cage the hard drive sits in a 3.5" drive cage attached to the bottom of the rest of the drive cage?  If so, I've seen on Dell computers where you have to remove the drive cage that the hard drive sits in.  It's usually just one or two screws then the hard drive cage slips right out.

Rusty
  


----- Original Message ----
From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:36:35 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Determine the hard drive type without opening the box

Thanks, Joh. I googled Hardtune and all I came up with is what appear to be
references to a band of that name. But I'll keep hunting. None of this would
be necessary if I could figure out how to get the drive out. It's in a Dell
Optiplex GS620 and it's simple enough to open the case and unscrew two
screws, but it appears that four screws are holding the drive in, and I
can't seem to get the other side of the box off. I figured maybe it was one
of those things with rails and it just slides out, but it won't budge.

Anyone got one of these machines? How about you Gustav? I know you're a big
Dell fan :)

My gut tells me that it's a Maxtor EIDE, partly because the RAM is twin 512
chips and the drive is only 80 gigs, so I'm pretty sure that it's EIDE. I
thought that at one time SATA cables were distinguished from IDE cables by
having a black edge as well as the red edge. Is that still true, if it ever
was?

A.

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> That should all be detailed in the BIOS. You could even download a program
> called Hardtune, which will tell you al lthat kinad thing too.
>
>
> Jon
>
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