"Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "Wm. Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For those of us new to this list, please speak english.(o:)! What is an ATA100-PCI card and what is an MDD ?
Hmm, if you don't know what ATA-PCI card or MDD is you probably don't know the answer, but of course you should know what the terms mean! :o)
ATA is the interface on IDE harddisks, ATA100 and 133 are the faster modern standards, older Macs had ATA66, and even 33 (slow!).
PCI is (obviously?) the card interface on the motherboard where one plugs the ATA card in.
The ATA card is a PCI card that will allow a further 4 IDE disks to be connected to the Mac, two buses with one master and one slave drive on each.
MDD stands for Mirror Drive Doors, the last of the G4 PowerMacs before the G5 was released. This Mac was the first to have three IDE buses, i.e. 6 devices, 4 for harddrives, thus my question, 4 + 4 harddrives in one Mac is quite a bit...
Nice explanation, Larry. To help decipher the gargon and the odd lingo in these e-lists, I like to refer to:
http://www.lowendmac.com/index.shtml
the web site of the sponsor of the list. On the right of the home page, look for Computer Profiles in the blue column. There find your specific machine and read on. Of course, there is a lot more as one follows the various other links at the site.
But it is really impossible to write everything in these lists in plain english. This would be like expressing the meaning of an automobile "tire" (or tyre for some of you) as "that round black object between the car and the road." So we have to learn the gargon. We can retrieve much more background information on computer terms through Google and from a book store.
Al Poulin
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