Quantum Fireball Plus LM 10.2GB 3.5" IDE Hard Drive LM10A011 10.2AT

Quantum Fireball Plus LM 10.2GB 3.5" IDE Hard Drive LM10A011 10.2AT

The Quantum Fireball Plus LM is a 3.5-inch IDE (PATA) hard drive with 10.2 GB of storage capacity. It uses the standard 40-pin ATA interface and 4-pin Molex power connector common to desktop systems of its era. This unit carries part number LM10A011, Rev 01-A, and is rated at 5V/12V with a 600/700 mA power draw.

Specifications & What's Included

• Brand: Quantum
• Product Line: Fireball Plus LM
• Model / AT Designation: 10.2AT
• Part Number (MPN): LM10A011
• Hardware Revision: Rev 01-A
• Capacity: 10.2 GB
• Form Factor: 3.5-inch
• Interface: IDE / ATA (PATA), 40-pin connector
• Power: 5V / 12V DC — 600 mA / 700 mA
• Series: 3.5 Series
• Country of Manufacture: Japan
• Jumper Settings: Master (factory default), Slave (jumper parking position), Cable Select
• Certifications: CE, UL (c UL us), N143
• Included: Drive only — no cables, brackets, or accessories

Applications

The Quantum Fireball Plus LM series was introduced in the late 1990s as a mainstream desktop hard drive targeting the consumer and light workstation markets. Drives in this family are still sought after today for use in legacy PC restorations, vintage computing projects, and industrial or embedded systems that require an IDE hard drive with a specific capacity. Many older CNC machines, point-of-sale terminals, medical instruments, and industrial control PCs were built around fixed-size IDE drives and cannot easily be swapped to modern SATA or NVMe storage without significant hardware changes. The 10.2 GB capacity and 40-pin ATA interface make this drive a direct replacement option for those platforms. Quantum's Fireball line was one of the more widely deployed drive families of the era, spanning models from under 1 GB through the low tens of gigabytes, and manufactured under Quantum's ownership before the Maxtor acquisition in 2001.