From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 16 18:49: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3775D37B416 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:48:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaryg.shacknet.nu ([64.231.156.147]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020417014858.NDMR28636.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@scaryg.shacknet.nu>; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:48:58 -0400 Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=scaryg.shacknet.nu) by scaryg.shacknet.nu with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16xeZb-0004P6-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:49:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:49:26 -0400 From: ScaryG To: Benjamin Krueger Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: DMS limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable error msg Message-Id: <20020416214926.0ecb3a58.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> In-Reply-To: <20020416182723.L23267@rain.macguire.net> References: <20020416195159.08971c73.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <200204170103.g3H13mJ14610@celebris.tddhome> <20020416211311.3ecbaefc.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <20020416181504.J23267@rain.macguire.net> <20020416212435.1be72a6a.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> <20020416182723.L23267@rain.macguire.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:27:23 -0700 Benjamin Krueger wrote: > Oversimple answer: its a fancy cable. There should be no difference at > the drive mostly because it is backwards compatible with the older sets. Sounds good to me. So I can purchase a PCI IDE ATA100 card and cable, and just connect the drive up to it and it'll be fine? No loss of data? Just plug 'n pray right? Should I disable the Primary IDE port on the Motherboard as well? Probably I imagine... gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message