Re:

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

Promise are producing a 'plug in' ata 133 controller, for more info goto

www.promise.com

Cheers

Stuart


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Mick Furlong wrote:

> Noticed this a while back just one thing to be wary of this is a
UIDE133 disc
> and that 'standard' is only currently suppported by some of the
> manufacturers. As I understand it you need a motherboard with a
different
> southbridge chip to support uide133 and I haven't seen any advertised,
> alternatively you could use a uide133 controller but again I havent
seen any
> out there. The main limitation is on the addressing of the space (I
think
> current systems top out at 137GB address space or something like
that)and
> many manufacturers aren't supporting uide133 but will go straight to
serial
> ATA discs.
>
> All of the above is from memory so probably contains factual errors
but if
> you want the real info look on toms hardware.
>
> Apart from that I want 4 of these in a raid array!!!!
>
> Cheers
> Mick
>
>
>  James Hoye <james.hoye@xxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Just noticed that ebuyer.com have a Maxtor 160GB disc (5400 rpm,
12ms) for
> > £208.86
> > QuickFind code:27553
> >
> > Many an hour of MP3 or Divx...
> >
> > James H
> >