[plug] dual processors

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Fri Aug 27 14:39:46 WST 1999


Kim Covil wrote:
> 
> The UDMA/66 lines require a special cable if you are going to run at 66
> but will take a standard cable and will run non-66 devices happily
> (UDMA/33 or normal)...

I have heared that UDMA/66 will NOT work with all UDMA/33 devices, in
particular, things like CD-ROM drives, etc, have been known to have problems.
So beware, before rushing out to get one just for the 8x IDE, that some old
devices *may* be incompatible...

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