[thechat] ATA drives for Mac?

[Martin]

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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