Topic: Technical help requested for ATA setting (Read 4412 times)

SL-Punisher · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2003, 06:46:42 pm »

ATA 133 is pretty much unrealised potential. Many of the technology magazines have done comparison tests and the results show that ATA133 isn't really much faster than ATA100. In fact, you might be better off picking up the ATA100 drives with the large 8MB buffer.

TarMinyatur · « **Reply #21 on:** December 05, 2003, 07:47:28 pm »

I really only needed more storage. ATA33 seems good enough. I just wondered if there was something I could do to take advantage of the ATA66+ capabilities. The HD doesn't share an IDE channel so an 80C cable might do the trick.

TarMinyatur · « **Reply #22 on:** December 06, 2003, 02:42:09 am »

Thanks for your help. The 80C cable worked. I now have ATA133 (at least nominally). My computer is noticably quicker at moving files about and loading stuff.

Sethan · « **Reply #23 on:** December 06, 2003, 02:54:55 am »

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Thanks for your help. The 80C cable worked. I now have ATA133 (at least nominally). My computer is noticably quicker at moving files about and loading stuff.

No problem - if you haven't seen them before, there is no reason you would know about them.

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