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Disk Interface and Bus Standards

• Technical Comitee T10 this is the place to find more information about I/O Interfaces, especially SCSI, SCSI-2, and SCSI-3 including SPI-2 (Fast-40 or Ultra2 SCSI), Low Voltage Differential (LVD), SPI-3 (Ultra3 SCSI or Ultra160), SPI-4 (Ultra320), SPI-5 (Ultra640), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and much more. There are also pointers here to other web sites on Fibre Channel, ATA (IDE), and ATA.
• Technical Committee T13 is responsible for all interface standards relating to the popular AT Attachment (ATA) storage interface utilized as the disk drive interface on most personal and mobile computers today. The charter of Technical Committee T13 is to provide a public forum for the development and enhancement of storage interface standards for high volume personal computers.
• 1394 Trade Association, dedicated to 1394 (FireWire) standard.
• Firewire [IEEE-1394] bus pinout, links.
• PCI Specifications.
• ISA (AT) bus.
• USB (Universal Serial Bus). See also interesting overview The ins and outs of USB from IBM .
• Beyond Logic is excellent site offering comprehensive, technical articles (many in downloadable PDF format) deling with USB, RS-232, Parallel Port Interfacing and other topics.
• PC Guide overview of disk interfaces, standards, history, operation, etc. Also good for other general PC topics.

Disk Data

• Sanderson Forensics site has hard disk removal instructions with photographs for many laptops.

Storage Area Networks (SAN)

• Introduction to storage area networks (IBM Redbook), downloadable documentation.

General Hardware Resources

• Upgrading and Repairing PCs Web site by Scott Mueller. His book "Upgrading and Repairing PCs", currently (2007) in 17th edition, is one of the best and most comprehensive hardware resources.