zip on a 80 pin cable?

[Guest]

Apoligies for the newbie question. Can I attach my old internal zip 100 onto the 80 pin cable that goes to my maxtor ata 100 40 GB. The other cable goes to my burner and regular cd-rom.

Thanks for the help, Mike

 

[hawki]

Yes you can.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yes you can, however be WARNED that the zip drive may excessively slow down your hard drive.
best to have the zip drive on its own channel.

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[Crashman]

pooba is right, I've seen SEVERE performance problems operating a hard drive and ZIP drive on the same cable!

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[lhgpoobaa]

yeah... read something a while back about them.
IIRC its cauz zip drives operate exclusively in PIO mode (yuck) and attaching a HDD to the same channel also makes the hard drive run in PIO mode. not very nice :frown:

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