[thechat] ATA drives for Mac?
Martin
martin at members.evolt.org
Tue Apr 23 05:24:01 CDT 2002
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 06:19 am, dave mclean wrote:
>> ...which is a UDMA/ATA-100 drive, whereas the controller Dave
>> mentioned is UDMA/ATA-66.
>>
>> Anyone know whether this will work (at the lower rate I'm
>> assuming)?
>
> Yep... It does the trick. Just like faster RAM in a slower bus, the IDE
> controller allows the faster drive to run at a slower transfer rate.
Not that it matters, as the vendor in question (ComputerWarehouse
in the UK) sent me an ATA-100 controller instead! woohoo!
(their cockup - their stock label says ATA-66)
Cheers
Martin
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