Am Do, den 26.02.2004 schrieb Jeff Vian um 00:35:
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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