From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 4 6:56:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D07E37B403 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) Received: from stealth.dummynet ([24.25.3.190]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:56:30 -0400 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f64DuX201041 for hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:56:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 09:56:33 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Speed Ques: Mixing IDE disks on a controller Message-ID: <20010704095633.A946@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm thinking of putting an old IBM 8GB disk (not Ultra-DMA) on the same controller with a new IBM 60GB (Ultra ATA/100) drive. Will I lose performance on the 60GB drive if I do? (I remember mixing drive speeds being a problem on IDE years ago, but I don't know if that's still the case with recent motherboards, hard disks, transfer modes, etc. FWIW, this motherboard has the VIA VT82C686B south bridge.) Thanks, Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message