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Subject: Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb]
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020427153130.03ea8b30@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> from Anton
 Altaparmakov at "Apr 27, 2002 04:02:54 pm"
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:06:46 +0200 (MEST)
CC: Kevin Krieser <kkrieser_list@footballmail.com>,
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From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 14:51 27/04/02, Kevin Krieser wrote:
> >You need an IDE controller that supports ATA133.  For most existing
> >computers, that is going to require a new card.
> 
> Rubbish! The drives are backwards compatible with all ATA standards (do a 
> hparm -i on the drive and you will see). I certainly don't have an ATA133 
> controller and use one of the new Maxtor ATA133 drives just fine on it.
> 
> For LBA48 support I am not too sure whether you need a special controller 
> (for what it's worth I use a Promise ATA100 controller and it works fine on 
> my Maxtor 120G, LBA48, ATA133 disk but the disk is possibly not big enough 
> for any problems to manifest).

For some reason, my 160G disks work on the "native" controllers, but
not on the promise cards that I bought for the purpose... After
figuring this out I haven't taken the time to find the root cause, as
I'm just a user in this respect...

			Roger. 


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