I have done this several times successfully. The drives run at the lower rate of the motherboard. Either an old 40 pin IDE or the new 80 pin IDE cable works.
Marc --- Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know next to nothing about IDE hardware. Is it > possible to install a new > (ATA-100) IDE hard drive into an old system (say a > first-generation Pentium) > whose controllers support only basic IDE? > > -- > Henry House > The attached file is a digital signature. See > <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> > for information. My OpenPGP key: > <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
