On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:03 pm, many eyes viewed Bryan Phinney's words:-
> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 04:06 am, Charlie wrote:
> > Not being an ironmonger, I was always under the impression that if you
> > had one say 5400rpm hardrive then the 7500rpm or whatever only ran at the
> > slower speed as well?
>
> You might be confusing RPM speed with UDMA or ATA standards.  If you have
> two drives, one a UDMA/33 and the other a UDMA/66 on the same controller,
> the controller has to access both drives at the slowest speed, so the
> UDMA/66 drive would be accessed at UDMA/33 speeds.  Same principle applies
> to two drives, one a UDMA/66 and the other a UDMA/100.  Both drives would
> be accessed at UDMA/66 speeds.

Yes Bryan, that's what I was confusing it with. You picked it in one, thank 
you.

Charlie

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