160GB on ATA100 controller

[Guest]

Hi all

I was thinking about getting the MAxtor 160 GB harddrive. Somewhere I have read that 128GB tough is again some limit.
Do I need to buy an ATA133 controller or can this be handled
by a bios-update (i have a a7v266-e mobo)

thx

 

[lhgpoobaa]

havnt seen any bois updates yet...
that issue seems to be a inherant hardware issue

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[chaotictech]

Yes if you go larger than 128 you'll need an ata133 ide card. Its a hardware issue that cannot be fixed without ne hardware. You could go with two 80 gigs in a raid array(this works by some trickery done in the raid array) and stay with ata100 drives and it would be quicker than a single ata133 drive.

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[Guest]

looks like maxtor is also bundling an ata133 pci-ide
controler with the drive...

thx again for your replies....

 

[Lars_Coleman]

The card is actually made by Promise for Maxtor. It's pretty nice. I don't think that it's going to yield better performance over ATA100. It also works in a 64bit PCI slot. It should be the equivalent to the Ultra133 TX2 that promise provides.

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