I currently have an ATA66 device on the same cable as ATA33. No
problems yet, but you got me worried now... !
I have two controllers on my mobo. I have a Maxtor 20GB on the
same cable as a Quantum Bigfoot 9.6GB. On the other controller I
have a CDROM and a CDRW drive.
-venkat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wandered Inn [mailto:">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:00 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] ata66 card
>
>
> "Glenn C. Lasher, Jr." wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Wandered Inn wrote:
> >
> > > > and another thing.....
> > > >
> > > > If you put the 66 and the 33 on the same controller
> (master/slave), they will run at the speed of the slower device. :-)
> > >
> > > I've seen this claim tossed back and forth a number of times. The
> > > original claim was that you didn't want your cdrom on the
> same ide as
> > > your hard drive, that's why most PC manufacturers
> routinely installed
> > > the hard drive on primary and the cdrom on the secondary.
> > >
> > > I really would like to find some documented evidence of
> this issue, as
> > > the last I heard it was not true.
> >
> > I have always assumed the claim to be true and wired accordingly,
>
> Well, I just got off the phone with Maxtor support and they
> told me that
> I can not put the ata66 drive on the same ide cable with my
> ata33 drive.
> He told me it would cause data corruption. He told me to put my cdrom
> on with the ata66 drive. I asked him about this issue of a
> slow device
> slowing down the faster device, and he said it's possible, but I don't
> have any choice.
>
> Personally I think this sucks. Either I can't use my 10gig
> drive, or I
> take the ata66 30gig back and get another ata33 drive. Going
> that route
> would actually save me some money, as I'd get a cheaper drive
> as well as
> return the controller card all together.
>
> Anyone out there running an ata66 and ata33 drive on the same
> ide cable?
>
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>
> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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