[G4] Did I miss my bus?

[jeff small]

Thanks for the reply.  The dual has *two* ATA busses, one ATA 100 and 
one ATA 66.
My new drive is a WD SE 120, btw.

Thanks
jeff

At 8:51 AM -0800 12/24/02, T. Brown / groucho wrote:
>On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 08:38  AM, jeff small wrote:
>
>>I'm installing an additional IDE drive in my dual 1ghz.  Does it 
>>matter which bus it's installed on?  I thought I had read somewhere 
>>that there was a protocol for adding drives; I can't find any 
>>reference now.
>>
>
>It would be best to put it on the same buss as the original drive. 
>There is a slight speed hit if you put it on the CD/DVD drive buss. 
>I do have a drive in the atapi chain, but it is for MP3 / iTunes 
>storage. The drive is a WD 80 gig special edition
>with an 8 meg cache. I notice no speed hit with it for that purpose. 
>With other drives though, there was a noticeable difference.
>
>
>HTH,
>groucho
>