ata 100 or ata 66

Windows XP Hardware >> ata 100 or ata 66 I have a spare hard drive which is ATA66 which im thinking of installing as a slave. The only problem I am worried about is my master drive is ATA100. Will the slave drive bring the master drive down to ATA66 or will it remain ATA.?

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Windows XP Hardware >> ata 100 or ata 66 Yes, the slower drive may bring the faster drive to the ATA/66 speeds.
However, ATA/100 drive can work with the ATA/66 speeds quite well.

Y.

"brian" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> I have a spare hard drive which is ATA66 which im thinking of installing
as a slave. The only problem I am worried about is my master drive is
ATA100. Will the slave drive bring the master drive down to ATA66 or will it
remain ATA.?

Windows XP Hardware >> ata 100 or ata 66 These days, provided your motherboard/BIOS is current, both drives should
run at their own speeds, the slower should not bring the faster down to its
speed.

Cari
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"brian" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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>I have a spare hard drive which is ATA66 which im thinking of installing as
>a slave. The only problem I am worried about is my master drive is ATA100.
>Will the slave drive bring the master drive down to ATA66 or will it remain
>ATA.?

Windows XP Hardware >> ata 100 or ata 66 brian wrote:

> I have a spare hard drive which is ATA66 which im thinking of installing as a slave. The only problem I am worried about is my master drive is ATA100. Will the slave drive bring the master drive down to ATA66 or will it remain ATA.?

Depends on the IDE chipset on the MB. Recent MBs maintain independent
sets of speed data for each HD, while old MBs only kept per-bus speed
data.

If your MB was manufactured in the last 4 years or so, each HD should run
at its own speed. Even if your MB is old, slowing down a HD from 100 MB/s
to 66 MB/s peak bus speed is likely to have very little impact with
typical PC apps.
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Cheers, Bob