Need help with replacing HD in laptop!

[firstsage]

I need to replace the hard drive in a laptop. When I goto the the manufactures site it says that the hard drive interface is ATA 5. Most of the replacements that I have found are ATA 6. Is ATA 6 backward compatible with ATA 5??

2600+ 266 FSB
A7N8X-E Deluxe
768 DDR PC2700
ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 PRO SERIES
Maxtor 120 gig 8MB cach 7200
Western Digital 60 gig 8MB cach
Liton DVDRW +/- 4xrw/8xr/16x

 

[folken]

ATA is ATA. The number just represents the speed it goes at. An ata6 drive will work on an ata5 controller, it will just be slowed down to that speed.

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[Crashman]

ATA5 is UDMA 100. ATA6 is UDMA 133. All the "speeds" are compatable with each other, and drives are still so slow that most can't exceed UDMA 66 transfer rates.

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[firstsage]

Thanks for the info. Buying a drive now wont be as hard.

2600+ 266 FSB
A7N8X-E Deluxe
768 DDR PC2700
ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 PRO SERIES
Maxtor 120 gig 8MB cach 7200
Western Digital 60 gig 8MB cach
Liton DVDRW +/- 4xrw/8xr/16x