DMA 133 HD w/ DMA 66 mainboard?

[liquidmarkets]

I have a mainboard that supports Ultra DMA/66. Can I use an Ultra DMA/133 hard drive with it (presumably at the 66 speed) or would it be completely incompatible? In other words, is DMA backwards-compatible?

 

[sjonnie]

The answer is yes

 

[wapaaga]

how big is the drive

some of the newer drives are to big to work on ata 66

 

[liquidmarkets]

I'm currently using a 30 G Maxtor hard drive that has suddenly become very slow (I checked for viruses and defragmented the drive - no viruses that Norton AntiVirus can detect) - too slow to support burning CDs at any faster than 1x speed. I'm guessing that the drive has started to burn out. I trying to decide what I should get as a replacement. I'll probably get between a 20 G and 60 G hard drive.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

drive burning out????
*sniggers*
sorry.
if your drive is dying you will more likely experience lockups and boot failures and bad grindy noises.

i bet what your problem is that DMA has somehow become disabled, making your drive act very slow.

check your bios for DMA enabled
check your system devices profile for write cache enabled and DMA enabled on the primary and secondary IDE channels.

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[camieabz]

No probs with the ATA issue. I just dropped a 40GB Maxtor D740X into an ATA/66 system.

Can't remember the chipset, but it's an older one. 800MHz Athlon 200MHz etc.

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[AEboy128]

What apps. are you running?? try uninstalling stuff that you don't use... It sounds like a good time for fdisk

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