Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb] | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:06:46 +0200 (MEST) | From | (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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