Am Do, den 26.02.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 00:35: [ snip ] > Statement 2 is not. With IDE busses, all devices on the bus operate at > the speed of the slowest device. Thus if you put an ATA133 drive on a > bus with an ATA33 cdrom, the entire bus only operates at ATA33. They > are improving this, and AFAICT the new SATA controllers do not have this > limitation. It only slows down for the time while the CD-ROM drive is accessed! Just connecting a slower driver to the cable will have no affect to the driver with the faster capability. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl Sirendipity 01:38:46 up 6 days, 3:12, load average: 0.25, 0.09, 0.08 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]