From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 10 22:30:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF47337BBD8 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA10561; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 01:21:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008110521.BAA10561@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Michael VanLoon" Cc: "FreeBSD Hardware List" Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 01:31:28 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B31774A@mail.edifecs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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