ATA100 questions

[btvillarin]

Okay, I don't have any problems with my hard drive. But, I'm curious...does setting the cable in the ATA100 slot make a difference compared to putting it in the standard IDE slot? What does my UDMA setting do in the BIOS? It's at 5 right now.

System Specs:
Asus A7V133
IBM 30GB 7200RPM ATA100

 

[Arrow]

It depends on the standard of your IDE slot. UDMA 5 is ATA100, meaning that your HDD is operating at ATA100. If your second IDE slot is ATA33, then the hard drive would only run at ATA33.

Rob
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[btvillarin]

So my HD is being used to it's full potential? (DMA is checked for Windows)

Basically, I wouldn't need to use the ATA100 slot unless I was using more than one HD for RAID, right?