It is connected to an ATA33 ide controller on the mb. I am not
sure about the cable but I would assume it is an ATA33 cable.
-venkat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wandered Inn [mailto:">esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:34 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] ata66 card
>
>
> Venkat Swaminathan wrote:
> >
> > I currently have an ATA66 device on the same cable as ATA33. No
> > problems yet, but you got me worried now... !
>
> Are you using an ata66 cable or an ata33 cable? Is it connected to an
> ata66 ide?
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I made some more phone calls. Talked to a Western Digital tech and a
> couple of local folks about this. I then called Maxtor back and got a
> different story from another tech. After I told him what I was told
> before, he forwarded me to a 'Senior' tech.
>
> All verified the following:
>
> I should not have a problem running the two drives together,
> on the same
> ide interface.
>
> They all pretty much agreed that running the ata66 with an ata33 was
> going to slow the ata66 down, regardless of the interface.
>
> They all pretty much agreed that a hard drive will slow down when
> coupled with a cdrom.
>
> So, I'm going to return my ata66 controller card and put my
> ata66 drive
> on my mb ide as primary/master. We'll see how it goes.
>
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> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K than there were with
> Y2K...
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