P-ATA on S-ATA

[mopeygoth]

Hi,

I was considering if connecting a PATA drive on a SATA connection, using a converter, will enable UDMA6 (ATA133)?, since many boards has a ATA100 (udma5) limit on the regular ATA connection.

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[Crashman]

It would probably run UDMA mode 5 at best, and could have some additional performance deficits from the conversion process. There is NO performance difference between Mode 5 and Mode 6 anyway on today's drives.

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[mopeygoth]

convertion process is a bad idea i see. I´ve seen and felt differences going from uda5 to udma6, the sequence remained at 60mb/s, but the bandwidth went from 85-107mb/s on my 7200rpm-8mb ata133 drive, but yes; the difference is minor, but still noticeable.
I will hopefully go 10k-8mb/16mb sata sometime soon, so it isn´t all that important.

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