From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 11 6: 0: 6 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 6A3FA37C11D for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:00:02 -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 IAA11796; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:51:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008111251.IAA11796@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Gary T. Corcoran" Cc: "FreeBSD Hardware List" , "Michael VanLoon" Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:01:04 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <3993BEED.B80644A@home.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 Fri, 11 Aug 2000 04:53:01 -0400, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: >Huh? You seem to be disagreeing with me, yet as I read the >above, it seems to agree with what I said: the ATA66 and >ATA100 drives use the *same* 80 conductor (40 pin) cables. From what I quoted/read it seems that ATA66 can use a 40 wire cable, but ATA100 needs the 80 wire one. In others, yes one can buy a cable that can work for both, one can also buy a cable that transmits at the ATA66 speed, but not at the ATA100. 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