>--- James Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I recently put this same combination in a G3 DT but I put in
> > an A-Card ATA-133 PCI/IDE card and hooked the drive to it. Works like
> > a champ and boots as well.
>>
>> Much better to hook a new ATA 133 hard drive to an ATA 133
> > controller than to hook it up to an ATA 33 or ATA 66 bus.
> > --
>> MacSheep
>
>Did you have to re-initialize the drive? I.e., can you just plug a
>drive that has files on it and be recognized immediately?
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This was a new hard drive and so I did initialize it.
In the past I moved a hard drive that was initialized with
and run from the onboard IDE controller to an IDE/PCI card and it
didn't work. I hear this limitation has been overcome in newer
systems but I remain wary of doing it. So can't say if yours will
work or not. However, if it were me, and the hard drive was set up
on, say, an ATA 33 bus, I would not attempt to hook it up to and run
it from an ATA 133 PCI card. Just being cautious.
If you have any way to save the data off the drive it is
safest to save the data somewhere off the drive first then hook the
drive to the ATA 133 card, write it to zero, initialize and partition
it, and then put the data back on it.
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