DMA66 Cable/HDD Partition

[rickd59]

I just set up my new system, and I have a few questions:

The IDE cable that connects my ATA100 HDD (Seagate 80GB) says "DMA66" on it. Is the cable a bottleneck, or will throughput be determined by the speed of the drive?

Secondly, should I partition the drive into 2 X 40 GB? The merit might be to save some data in the event of a virus (are there others?)....I have virus protection software, adn I was wondering if this is overkill? Thanks.

-Rick

 

[AndrewT]

with an ATA66 cable it will do 66, you need the ATA100 cable to have the 100
ATA100 cable good for 133, 100, 66, 33
ATA66 good for 66, 33
so the cable will hold it back

I would partition it to 10-30-40, 10 for OS and the goodies, 30 & 40 for storage of all the junk you can get on-line I got 2 drives in this box, 1st 10-20, 2nd 20-20. one got 98se, the other got 2K, I don't like dual boot so just pull the power before boot from the one I don't want to use. Yeah I'm weird

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[upec]

ATA100 uses the same cable as ATA66. Your can just use the cable you already have.

 

[AndrewT]

my bad, you are right. for some reason I was thinking about the old 40 cable

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[rickd59]

Great. Thanks again for the info.

-Rick