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Re: Hard drives
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:06:32 +0000, you wrote:
>Quoting Keith Doxey (ukha@xxxxxxx):
>
>> Tha machine I want to build will have a motherboard that is a few
years old
>> so I am not sure what maximum size it can support.
>
>It's not just a disk size thing, either. I believe some newer ATA
drives
>(ATA-133, possibly ATA-100?) won't all talk to old IDE interfaces.
>Certainly I've got an old AMD K3 box that can't see some modern drives
>at all, even though they work on newer systems and old drives work on
>the K3 motherboard.
>
This is probabaly down to the size problem rather than speed.
But it *was* true that some ATA133 drives run on an older
controller could get confused.
Regards,
Harry.
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