2nd Harddrive ATA/100

[Guest]

Hi,
I assembled my second computer in Office Depot a year ago and it is Abit motherboard and Pentium III 500. My HD is ATA/66 I want to buy the second one -- ATA/100.
(1)Would my motherboard support ATA/100?
(2)Can I run one HD at ATA/100 and another at ATA/66, if motherboard supports ATA/100?
(3)What would be the best Master/Slave configuration taking in account that I also have CDrom and Zip Drive on another IDE?
(4) If my motherboad doesn't support ATA/100, would a PCI card help me to install ATA/100 HD and run it at full capacity?
Thanks a lot.

 

[Arrow]

I doubt that your motherboard supports ATA66. There are ATA100 controllers you can buy in the form of a PCI card to upgrade to ATA100. However, you won't notice much of a difference between ATA66 and ATA100.

Rob
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[Guest]

(1)Would my motherboard support ATA/100?

No

(2)Can I run one HD at ATA/100 and another at ATA/66, if motherboard supports ATA/100?

You could if it did, but if your mb is a year old it doesn't.

(3)What would be the best Master/Slave configuration taking in account that I also have CDrom and Zip Drive on another IDE?

Hard drives as master on each channel of an ATA 66 or 100 controller. Cd-Rom and Zip as master with one on primary and other on secondary.

(4) If my motherboad doesn't support ATA/100, would a PCI card help me to install ATA/100 HD and run it at full capacity?

Yeap, exactly how might depend on which Abit board you have. If it's one with the ATA66 highpoint controller integrated, I don't see the point in adding an ATA100. Again as Arrow said, there isn't a lot of difference in performance of the interface.

***Hey I run Intel... but let's get real***

 

[seanmcne]

Office Depot? What is this world coming too...

 

[Guest]

not support unless u buy an ata100 card

 

[Crashman]

Chord has it right. You probably have ATA 33, maybe if your lucky 66 on your board. All newer drives are backwards compatable.

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