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
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