On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:29 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good evening, Damon... > > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:05 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > > It still may matter. But I don't know - that's why I am asking :-) > > > > Supposing you have a UDMA 100 as master, and a UDMA 33 as slave. > > Conceivably they may both drop down to UDMA 33, and the master runs a > > bit faster than the slave simply because it is the master. > > Normally that is all true *EXCEPT* there is a differential factor that I > just mentioned to someone else on this list about Maxtor drives running on > the same IDE channel as a non-Maxtor drive, regardless whether they match > or not, will not "cooperate". > > > Maybe that is not what will happen. Either way, I'm curious to know > > what the experts think! I've heard conflicting stories from different > > folks (mostly off this list). > > Without doing a *lot* of testing I'd hazard a guess that is as good a > generalization as you could find anywhere, and probably better than some... > with > the possible exception of Maxtor drives and most other non-Maxtor drives, > as noted previously. Another combination I remember vaguely that ran into > troubles > in the early testing I've done was using a Seagate EIDE slow drive on the > primary and a fast Seagate on the secondary, which only worked in 16 bit > mode, something else I never understood. 8-) was that in M$ products say before 1997?
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