[G4] Much Ado About Harddrives

[Eric Smith]

Kathi Anderson wrote:

> One more thing. The /66 part is the speed of the hard drive.

Actually it's the speed of the interface, not the drive.

> I am not sure is you can put a /100 in a machine designed for /66.

You can; you just won't get data transferred any faster than
the interface speed. But in James's case he was looking at a
SATA drive not an ATA drive, so he would need a separate PCI-based
SATA controller card for it anyway.

Eric