<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hi Chaps,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Who'd have thought that 7-pass formatting was what was needed?<br></font>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Clearly Kenneth has the (P)ATA version of the HD and not the SATA version (there's two links on the page he referred to). I suspect that the advance in 'plug and play' to which he refers is 'cable select'.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> I'd be interested to see what the difference in performance is between the ATA5 and ATA6 busses on the MDD. Perhaps Kenneth could benchmark (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.xbench.com">http://www.xbench.com</a>) </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">some drive tests before/after moving the drive?</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">BTW, My QS2002/800 (sn#SG227B1BM1X) supports two 400GB drives on the ATA5 bus, and I believe all subsequent Power Macs will have 'large drive capability' (>128GB).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Regards,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Charles</font></div></div></body></html>