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 -- Today I contemplated the principle of being at peace whatever circumstances are encountered. The sense of rest is still with me. This purpose does not admit any slackening. How could I get sick and tired of things due to old age? - Wu Yubi (1391-1469) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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