ATA 100 with ATA 133 on same IDE Cable

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Hi

After a bit of techie info. My Maxtor 60GB Ultra ATA-100 has just given up
the ghost, will not re-format - it's knackered! I have another drive,
exactly the same on the same IDE cable. I'm now looking at buying another
Maxtor HD to replace the knackered one but it is ATA-133. Can I put them
both the ATA-100 and ATA-133 on the same IDE cable?

Many thanks in advance.

Dave Mac

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Yes, but it works faster if the IDE cable is not the older product, but
supports the ATA/ATAPI-4 standard that introduced the Ultra DMA transfer mode
set.

A new cable was introduced to replace the old standby: the 80-conductor
IDE/ATA cable. The name is important: the new cable has 80 conductors
(wires)--it does not have 80 pins on each connector, though, just 40. This
means that the new cable is pin-compatible with the old drives.


"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> YES. ATA 133 hard drive are compatible with all ATA modes (down to ATA 33).
>
>
> "Dave McCreath" <dave@mccreath1323.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> newswUwe4TFFHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi
> >
> > After a bit of techie info. My Maxtor 60GB Ultra ATA-100 has just given
> > up the ghost, will not re-format - it's knackered! I have another drive,
> > exactly the same on the same IDE cable. I'm now looking at buying another
> > Maxtor HD to replace the knackered one but it is ATA-133. Can I put them
> > both the ATA-100 and ATA-133 on the same IDE cable?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dave Mac
> >
>
>
>