From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 11 9:30:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B83837C056 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA60126; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:29:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:29:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "Gary T. Corcoran" , FreeBSD Hardware List , Michael VanLoon Subject: Re: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <200008110751.DAA11086@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message