ATA100 & Regular IDE HD

[Guest]

Is it possible to connect an ATA100 hard drive as a master and as the slave a regular IDE hard drive? Will it decrease peformance or anything?

-symband

 

[Spdy_Gonzales]

Some people think it will reduce performance, others think it will not. So I guess the answer is to try it and see what happens...it won't break anything. My guess is that it will not hurt performance.

I wonder...what is the speed of gravity?

 

[AEboy128]

It will only run as fast as the regular IDE drive. It won't run at ata-100. I learned this when i got my cd-rom drive and found out that my hard drive was only running at ultra-33 and not 66 that is why i have my cd-rom and cd-burner on the same cable(controller 2) and the hard drive on controller 1.

Im savin up for a Cobra!! Hehe!!

 

[FatBurger]

The only problem with that is when you're doing on-the-fly CD copies. If the reader and writer are on the same cable, they don't like to work.

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[AEboy128]

By "on-the-fly" you mean directly from cd to the blank cd right??

Im savin up for a Cobra!! Hehe!!

 

[FatBurger]

Right, but you can copy straight across non-on-the-fly, by having the program create an image file first. It's still one step as far as you're concerned, but it's really two. If your program is reading and then writing, you created an image file. If it just does one long read/write, then you did it on-the-fly.

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