[G4] G4 ATA Hard Drive Question

[Perry The Cynic]

ATA 100 drives work just fine with an ATA 66 controller (they act as ATA 66 
drives, which is no performance loss). The one gotcha is that ATA 66 
controllers can't deal with more than about 132GB (gigabytes) of disk, so a 
160GB (or larger) ATA 100 disk will not be able to use its full capacity.

Conversely, an ATA 33 drive could be used in your ATA 66 controller fine 
(at 33 speed). That you may even notice, if the drive is fast. :-)

Cheers
  -- perry

--On Friday, August 29, 2003 11:17 PM -0500 Ron Michael 
<ronmicha at midsouth.rr.com> wrote:

> Hope this isn't too dumb of a question--can you put an ATA 100 hard drive
> in one of the G4s ATA 66 carriers? Does the ATA 66 slot have to have an
> ATA 66 and/or higher, or ATA 66 and lower only?  I suspect I'll need to
> add an ATA 100 adapter card but would appreciate someone's knowledge on
> this. Thanks.
> Ron/Memphis
>
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Perry The Cynic                                             perry at cynic.org
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