On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:29 pm, Dave Laird wrote:
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> Good evening, Damon...
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> 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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