[plug] transfer speed of old and new HD's on one ide channel

[Beau Kuiper]

You can mix and match different size hard drives on the same channel. You
only need to worry if one drive does ata33 and the other does ata66, where
the ata66 drive will be limited to ata33

There are no problems mixing drives with different spindel speed (5400rpm
vs 7200rpm) since it is hidden by the ide interface on the harddrive

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On 9 Jun 2001, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> I'm thinking of getting one of the new IBM 60Gbyte 7200rpm ATA100 ide
> disks.  What happens if I use this on an ide channel with an older,
> slower disk - are transfer speeds limited to the slower disk? - or can
> they be set separately with no interaction?  One of the things I want to
> do is improve the disk writing speed during audio/video work which is
> woeful at the moment (yes I have tuned them using hdparm - just too
> old/low spec I think)  The MB will do ATA66
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> I have all channels full in the machine at the moment and need to plan
> on redistributing the HD's across 3 machines if I cannot keep one as a
> fileserver for the others - only one is using ReiserFS which I love with
> my propensity to *crash* things by doing something silly!
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> BillK
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