Does ATA133 Hard Drives Work With ATA100 PCI Controller Cards?

[Steve Lee]

One of my computers has an Asus P2B rev1.10 and currently, it's using
a PCI Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller which has a ATA100 Maxtor hard
drive on it. It's only a 30GB though and thought about adding another
HD since they're pretty cheap these days.

But the shops I usually buy my stuff from only sell ATA133 HD's now,
so I was wondering if it'd be possible to use an ATA133 HD on the PCI
ATA100 controller which already has an ATA100 HD or would there be
problems or conflicts because of the speed difference between the
ATA100/ATA133? It'd be sweet if I can just slap an ATA133 HD on my
current PCI ATA100 controller card and still be able to use my ATA100
HD. TIA!

 

[kony]

One of my computers has an Asus P2B rev1.10 and currently, it's using
a PCI Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller which has a ATA100 Maxtor hard
drive on it. It's only a 30GB though and thought about adding another
HD since they're pretty cheap these days.

But the shops I usually buy my stuff from only sell ATA133 HD's now,
so I was wondering if it'd be possible to use an ATA133 HD on the PCI
ATA100 controller which already has an ATA100 HD or would there be
problems or conflicts because of the speed difference between the
ATA100/ATA133? It'd be sweet if I can just slap an ATA133 HD on my
current PCI ATA100 controller card and still be able to use my ATA100
HD. TIA!

It will work fine, nothing you're mentioned is problematic. Just be
sure to use an 80-conductor ATA66/100/133 cable, and preferribly put
each on it's own channel on the PCI controller card, to maximize
performance.


Dave

 

[Steve Lee]

It will work fine, nothing you're mentioned is problematic. Just be
sure to use an 80-conductor ATA66/100/133 cable, and preferribly put
each on it's own channel on the PCI controller card, to maximize
performance.

Dave

Woohoo!! Thanks, for the good news, Dave.