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September 24th 03, 05:59 AM
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Does ATA133 Hard Drives Work With ATA100 PCI Controller Cards?
One of my computers has an Asus P2B rev1.10 and currently, it's using
a PCI Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller which has a ATA100 Maxtor hard drive on it. It's only a 30GB though and thought about adding another HD since they're pretty cheap these days. But the shops I usually buy my stuff from only sell ATA133 HD's now, so I was wondering if it'd be possible to use an ATA133 HD on the PCI ATA100 controller which already has an ATA100 HD or would there be problems or conflicts because of the speed difference between the ATA100/ATA133? It'd be sweet if I can just slap an ATA133 HD on my current PCI ATA100 controller card and still be able to use my ATA100 HD. TIA! 
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September 24th 03, 06:20 AM
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:59:34 GMT, Steve Lee wrote:
One of my computers has an Asus P2B rev1.10 and currently, it's using a PCI Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller which has a ATA100 Maxtor hard drive on it. It's only a 30GB though and thought about adding another HD since they're pretty cheap these days. But the shops I usually buy my stuff from only sell ATA133 HD's now, so I was wondering if it'd be possible to use an ATA133 HD on the PCI ATA100 controller which already has an ATA100 HD or would there be problems or conflicts because of the speed difference between the ATA100/ATA133? It'd be sweet if I can just slap an ATA133 HD on my current PCI ATA100 controller card and still be able to use my ATA100 HD. TIA! It will work fine, nothing you're mentioned is problematic. Just be sure to use an 80-conductor ATA66/100/133 cable, and preferribly put each on it's own channel on the PCI controller card, to maximize performance. Dave
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September 24th 03, 07:08 AM
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:20:29 GMT, kony wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:59:34 GMT, Steve Lee wrote: One of my computers has an Asus P2B rev1.10 and currently, it's using a PCI Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller which has a ATA100 Maxtor hard drive on it. It's only a 30GB though and thought about adding another HD since they're pretty cheap these days. But the shops I usually buy my stuff from only sell ATA133 HD's now, so I was wondering if it'd be possible to use an ATA133 HD on the PCI ATA100 controller which already has an ATA100 HD or would there be problems or conflicts because of the speed difference between the ATA100/ATA133? It'd be sweet if I can just slap an ATA133 HD on my current PCI ATA100 controller card and still be able to use my ATA100 HD. TIA! It will work fine, nothing you're mentioned is problematic. Just be sure to use an 80-conductor ATA66/100/133 cable, and preferribly put each on it's own channel on the PCI controller card, to maximize performance. Dave Woohoo!! Thanks, for the good news, Dave.
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