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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:29:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com>, FreeBSD Hardware List <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael VanLoon <MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM>
Subject:   Re: Best behaved  drives for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008111123340.59633-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <200008110751.DAA11086@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:37:28 -0400, Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
> 
> >I don't think so.  My understanding is that ATA100 uses the *same*
> >cables as ATA66 - they were just able to squeeze another 33MHz of
> >performance out of them.
> 
> No.

Yes.  The article you showed is incorrect (its amazing where they come
up with this crap).  The new 80-wire/40-pin cable was introduced with
ATA66, not ATA100 as the article states.  ATA100 uses the same
80-wire/40-pin cable as ATA66.  ATA33 can use the 40-wire/40-pin IDE
cables we've been using for many years.  The 80-wire/40-pin cables can
be used just fine with ATA33 and older drives/interfaces, of course.



-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )




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