my MOBO has the ATA33 IDE chanels .. and Im getting a Maxtor that
says "System Requirements ATA 66/100/133 Bus "

would that work ???

well I dont care for the new HD would work slow ~33MB/s ..
my OS main HD's is using SCSI .. and this would only be used as
storage

and no I dont have a free PCI slot.


http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...=&newdeptid=18


what do you guys think ?


thax
Don

On 27 Aug 2003 07:59:01 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Don) wrote:

>my MOBO has the ATA33 IDE chanels .. and Im getting a Maxtor that
>says "System Requirements ATA 66/100/133 Bus "
>
>would that work ???
>
>well I dont care for the new HD would work slow ~33MB/s ..
>my OS main HD's is using SCSI .. and this would only be used as
>storage
>
>and no I dont have a free PCI slot.
>
>
>http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...=&newdeptid=18
>
>
>what do you guys think ?
>
>
>thax
>Don
How big a drive? It should work at ATA33 speeds, but might be bigger
than your BIOS can handle. Most ATA33 systems had a limit of 32gb, the
rest topped out at 127gb.

Don't know, but if the Maxtor does not work with ATA33 it will default to PIO, which will make ATA33 look fast.


Don wrote:
>
> my MOBO has the ATA33 IDE chanels .. and Im getting a Maxtor that
> says "System Requirements ATA 66/100/133 Bus "
>
> would that work ???
>
> well I dont care for the new HD would work slow ~33MB/s ..
> my OS main HD's is using SCSI .. and this would only be used as
> storage
>
> and no I dont have a free PCI slot.
>
> http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...=&newdeptid=18
>
> what do you guys think ?
>
> thax
> Don

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

Mike .. why do you say it would fall back to PIO mode ?!
shouldn't fall to ATA33 ?!!! is this a Maxtor thing ?

thanks


Mike Walsh <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Don't know, but if the Maxtor does not work with ATA33 it will default to PIO, which will make ATA33 look fast.
>
>
> Don wrote:
> >
> > my MOBO has the ATA33 IDE chanels .. and Im getting a Maxtor that
> > says "System Requirements ATA 66/100/133 Bus "
> >
> > would that work ???
> >
> > well I dont care for the new HD would work slow ~33MB/s ..
> > my OS main HD's is using SCSI .. and this would only be used as
> > storage
> >
> > and no I dont have a free PCI slot.
> >
> > http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pro...=&newdeptid=18
> >
> > what do you guys think ?
> >
> > thax
> > Don

On 27 Aug 2003 20:38:45 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Don) wrote:

>Mike .. why do you say it would fall back to PIO mode ?!
>shouldn't fall to ATA33 ?!!! is this a Maxtor thing ?
>
>thanks

It won't fall down into PIO mode.. like all modern drives, it can
scale back to ATA33 fine, there are no unique Maxtor-issues in this
regard. The only real issue since you don't mind ATA33, is whether
the motherboard BIOS supports the drive capacity.


Dave

It might run at ATA33 as you say, even though Maxtor does not say so. If DMA does not work, e.g. in DOS or Win95, (or sometimes with any other OS) it will run in PIO mode. If you use a Promise PCI card (which emulates SCSI) it will always run with DMA.


kony wrote:
>
> On 27 Aug 2003 20:38:45 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Don) wrote:
>
> >Mike .. why do you say it would fall back to PIO mode ?!
> >shouldn't fall to ATA33 ?!!! is this a Maxtor thing ?
> >
> >thanks
>
> It won't fall down into PIO mode.. like all modern drives, it can
> scale back to ATA33 fine, there are no unique Maxtor-issues in this
> regard. The only real issue since you don't mind ATA33, is whether
> the motherboard BIOS supports the drive capacity.
>
> Dave

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

my MoBo can take up to 32G .. and the drive is a 30GB ..
Im using Winnt4 (sp6a)

there is this program from microsoft that would enable the DMA
its called Dmacheck

can get it from : http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q191/7/74.asp

Im getting it today .. Ill let you guys know what happens

thanks for all of your replays

Don

Mike Walsh <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> It might run at ATA33 as you say, even though Maxtor does not say so. If DMA does not work, e.g. in DOS or Win95, (or sometimes with any other OS) it will run in PIO mode. If you use a Promise PCI card (which emulates SCSI) it will always run with DMA.
>
>
> kony wrote:
> >
> > On 27 Aug 2003 20:38:45 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (Don) wrote:
> >
> > >Mike .. why do you say it would fall back to PIO mode ?!
> > >shouldn't fall to ATA33 ?!!! is this a Maxtor thing ?
> > >
> > >thanks
> >
> > It won't fall down into PIO mode.. like all modern drives, it can
> > scale back to ATA33 fine, there are no unique Maxtor-issues in this
> > regard. The only real issue since you don't mind ATA33, is whether
> > the motherboard BIOS supports the drive capacity.
> >
> > Dave