Adding an older hard drive?

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If i install an ata33 hard drive as a slave and have my ata66 as the master on the same controller will the 66 slow down to 33?
 

lhgpoobaa

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Ive found that not to be the case...
ive got a ata100 ibm 60GXP and a ata33 ibm 16.8GP as primary master and slave.
both go at their designated speeds (done the benchmarks to prove it).
the only thing to look out for is to make sure the faster drive is the master and to use an ata66/100 80 pin cable as opposed to the older ata33 40 pin cable.

oh yes... also helps if your motherboard HAS an ata66 or ata100 controller too!


My Hamster has 512MB of SDRAM @ 150Mhz CAS 2!
 

FatBurger

Illustrious
I've heard many places that it will only run at the speed of the lower one. Could be chipset or driver issues. I'll have to do some more research into this.

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