Late BIOS should support larger drives (the main reason for ATA133 in the first place), the drive will perform just fine and in ATA100 mode (which has no performance penalty).
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No reason to try for ATA133 unless you have a Raptor drive that spins 15,000 rpm. The normal 5400 and 7200 rpm drives can't even fill an ATA66 channel, far as I know, much less an ATA100 one.
Just thought id mention that:
1)Raptor drives are SATA not PATA
2)Raptor drives spin at 10,000RPM
I know you were just making a point but these things nag at me.
First Answer is :NO!!!, Secondly. When I connected an ATA133 drive to my pc and tried to copy to the drive. It kept kicking out errors and wouldnt allow me to copy either to the ATA133 drive or anything from it.
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