>Although I do not understand the technicalities, your comment
about "will not auto-negotiate down to ATA-5" was not very
encouraging. What do I need to know here?
The Lombard and Pismo G3s, which are relatively recent machines, and are
PCI-based, compared to your relatively old, and NuBus-based 2400
You must be thinking either of the 1400 or 2300. The 2400 is
definitely PCI based - it's a cousin of the 3400. It can even be
modified to be CardBus compatible!
There are several vendors which support older PowerBooks, most
particularly 1400s, but also those up to the 3400 (last 604)
There was never a 604 based PowerBook. The 603e was all PowerPC
PowerBooks before the G3. (However, Vertegri Research had plans to
make a 604e, Tanzania-based "portable" clone. I've never seen one in
the wild. <http://www.paulgossen.com/vertegri/>)
For the record, I've run an IBM/Hitachi 40GNX 40GB hard drive in my
Wallstreet and Pismo (both of which are OT here) with no problems
whatsoever. I don't know if this qualifies as one of _your_
so-called "newer" drives, though...
The message that Gary needs to take away is that since his PowerBook
2400c is _not_ a Pismo or Lombard, it will work fine with any hard
drive he can put in it. In fact, the 2400c (and the 3400c) is ATA-2.
That means it can operate in PIO Mode 4 and/or multiword DMA yielding
speeds as fast as 16.6 MB/s (though I think this is a little
optimistic for a PowerBook of that vintage). 11.1 or 13.3 MB/s are
probably more realistic even if still only "theoretical."
Peace,
Drew
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