On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 18:35, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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. That is not the case anymore. The IDE bus will change the speed depending on what device is currently being accessed. I have a CD-ROM and an ATA/100 HDD on the secondary controller and the HDD has no slow down at all. Jim Drabb -- --------------------------------------------------------- The box said: "Requires Windows 98/2000/NT/XP or better." So, I installed LINUX! --------------------------------------------------------- James Drabb JR Senior Programmer Analyst Davenport, FL USA
