The comp.arch.storage FAQ includes frequently asked questions on tapes, disks, storage arrays, and SSD.

The SCSI FAQ from comp.periphs.scsi covers generic SCSI questions as well as nitty gritty protocol and debugging documentation and pointers.

The CD-R FAQ, maintained by Andy McFadden, lists a great deal of information about CD Recordable technology, from formats to usage and hardware and software vendors.

The drive definition database, maintained by Chris Hooper, provides technical information on a number of drives from well known manufacturers.

The Blue Planet Tech Page claims to lists jumpers and specifications for every drive ever made.

The enhanced IDE FAQ and utilities page has a number of links to EIDE specific and general drive specs.

The Harddisk Database, PC-DISK clains to have specs on more than 5,100 disks, including layouts, jumper settings, and parameters. There's also a search engine, disk utilities, installation instructions, and various FAQs.

Micro House's hard drive search ets you search a database of thousands of hard drives for drive models that match the criteria you enter, including make, interface, capacity, drive height, and form factor.

Quantum Support has information on connecting different SCSI devices to Suns, AIX, IRIX, and HP-UX boxes.

For OS specific entries, try the Ultrix disktab and Sun master format.dat files.

The SCSI FAQ covers the SCSI specs, drive jumpers, terminators, vendor contacts, and much more.

The Linux parallel port devices page includes info about drivers for external parallel port devices in Linux, including the parallel port version of the Iomega zip drive. See also Dave Campbell's parallel port ZIP drive.

Using a Zip Drive with Unix, written by Cameron Simpson, covers setting up a Zip medium for UFS and PCFS (FAT) with Solaris 2.x and other Unix variants. She sums up the creation of a zip disk filesystem in several scripts that she includes on this page.

The zip drive mini-howto, by Kyle Dansie, provides a quick reference quide on setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux.

The scsiinfo software, written by John DiMarco is useful for displaying SCSI entries and debugging device problems.

Similarly, sysinfo provides some SCSI information as well as showing memory and other various hardware entries.

HFS Utilities for Unix Systems is a freeware program by Robert Leslie which allows UNIX machines to manipulate floppies, CD-ROMs or SCSI disks of Macintosh Hierarchical File System format. It has a command-line, X-based, and Tcl user interface, and C library interface for low-level access to volumes.

The ziptool software for Solaris 2.x, written by Andy Polyakov, is a freeware utility to format and manage protection modes supported by the iomega ZIP100 and JAZ1GB drives.

Disktool, from Artecon, is a freeware GUI for SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x that does disk labeling and partition setting.

The mtools software package allows on to access a floppy drive local to a UNIX machine with MS DOS style commands and then use that floppy in an MS DOS based machine. For more details, also check the mtools manual information.

Macutils allow one to translate MAC files to UNIX format and visa versa. This software package includes hexbin, binhex, macstream, macunpack, macsave, tomac and frommac.

TransferPro for Unix, from Digital Instrumentation Technology, Inc. can move files to and from Mac, MS-DOS or Unix formatted cartridges and disks. The software reads and writes any SCSI device and formats Iomega and Syquest drives, Magneto-optical drives, floppy and floptical, CD-ROM. It has both a command-line and GUI interface and runs on IRIX 4-6, DG/UX, RS6000 and Apple AIX, Sun, Dec Alpha, HP-UX 10. A downloadable demo is available.