Re: 48-bit IDE [Re: 160gb disk showing up as 137gb]
Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:06:46 +0200 (MEST)
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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