Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 01:31:28 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "Michael VanLoon" <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM> Cc: "FreeBSD Hardware List" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200008110521.BAA10561@sanson.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B31774A@mail.edifecs.com>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:28:03 -0700, Michael VanLoon wrote: >An ATA100 drive will run just fine on an ATA66 motherboard. yes someone else pointed this out. >Why would you think otherwise? Plain ignorance. :-) .. and the fact I read about needing differnt cables.. >This is the way it has worked ever since they started >improving the IDE interface I used to try and wait until I had enough $$ to go with SCSI for my home systems. It wasn't until this year that I have had a chance to use FreeBSD at work. >Pretty soon all ATA drives will be ATA100, that means people with older >machines will never be able to use them? I think not... :-) ..but they will not be able to take advantage to their full potentail.. although they could buy PCI IDE controllers. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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