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Offline whabang

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Re: PC: Harddisk question
« on: February 03, 2003, 02:25:52 PM »
They will both run at their maximum speeds.
It is not possible to mix ATA 66 and 33 ( or 100 or 133 or whatever... :-D ), but two drives with ATA 100 will both work with optimal speed.
This is why a standard CD-ROM has ATA 100 support, if it didn't, it would slow down the system.
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Re: PC: Harddisk question
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2003, 02:47:13 PM »
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No, but if you hook up an ATA33 drive and an ATA66 drive to the same channel, the ATA66 one will drop down to ATA33 (if it supports it), at least that's what I've been told. :-|

Yep, that's what I meant... ;-)
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Re: PC: Harddisk question
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2003, 03:10:16 PM »
Exactly.
PIO mode can also be used in the same way, but it takes much more CPU power...
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