[G4] What type of drive will work?

[Harry Freeman]

On May 9, 2008, at 4:47 AM, Dan A. Currie wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> My MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM / 120 GB and 200 GB HD / NETSCAPE  
> 7.2 / OS X.4.11 is losing one of its drives.
>
> According to the manual it can handle 6 drive / storage devices. The  
> 2 ATA / 100 bays and the 2 Optical bays are filled but the 2 ATA /  
> 66 bays are empty.
>
> My question is will an ATA / 100 storage drive work in one of the  
> ATA / 66 bays?  I would like to put a 300 GB ATA / 100 dstorage  
> drive in one of the bays.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dan A. Currie, Jr.
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Greetings ( + )!( + )

All ATA/IDE drives should work in the ATA/66 interface, its just that  
they will be slower i.e. the interface is 34% slower than the ATA/100  
interface. However if you should obtain an ATA/PCI interface card the  
I/O to an from the drive should be much faster.

Harry
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