Ultra DMA 100 & RAID ULTRA ATA 133

[smilepak]

I am a bit puzzle with all the spec on today's motherboard. They have 2 port that is ULTRA DMA-ATA 100/66/33, plus they have 2 port ULTRA DMA-ATA RAID 133/100

Could I just use one port from the the RAID instead of using the normal one. If I buy a large IDE hard drive 200 GB, it requires ULTRA ATA 133. Will that work?

 

[soulprovider]

Ultra 66/100/133 are all backwards compatible so will work.

I'd guess you're using an INTEL chipset based board which only supports up to ATA100 using the standard IDE channels.

However, the onboard RAID chip is a third party IC which usually supports ATA133. More often than not these support either Raid or single drive configuration via jumper/bios setting.

<b>Vorsprung durch Dontwerk</b>.....<i>as they say at VIA</i>

 

[elzt]

Most of today's mobos support big (200GB+) hard drives.