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I built my last computer in Spring 2001, and at the time everything
was coming out with ATA-133 IDE. Both my motherboard (Intel 815
chipset-based) and the drives I bought supported it.
i recently purchased a new motherboard, & when i was looking, I
noticed that none of the current Intel chipsets support ATA-133, only
ATA-100 max plus SATA. I ended up buying an Intel 865G chipset-based
motherboard, which says it's only ATA-100, though the BIOS shows my
drives detected as UDMA mode 5. I'm using my old drives, but briefly
looking at newer drivers, I notice many are only ATA-100.
just out of curiosity, anyone know why vendors seemingly have dropped
133? i can't imagine it matters in the real world on a home PC, i'm
just interested.
thanks
I built my last computer in Spring 2001, and at the time everything
was coming out with ATA-133 IDE. Both my motherboard (Intel 815
chipset-based) and the drives I bought supported it.
i recently purchased a new motherboard, & when i was looking, I
noticed that none of the current Intel chipsets support ATA-133, only
ATA-100 max plus SATA. I ended up buying an Intel 865G chipset-based
motherboard, which says it's only ATA-100, though the BIOS shows my
drives detected as UDMA mode 5. I'm using my old drives, but briefly
looking at newer drivers, I notice many are only ATA-100.
just out of curiosity, anyone know why vendors seemingly have dropped
133? i can't imagine it matters in the real world on a home PC, i'm
just interested.
thanks