ATA 100...66....33 ?

[Kinesis]

Question:
If you have a board with two ATA 100 Compliant IDE ports, and you hook up a HD which is ATA 100 compliant and a Zip Drive on the same Port, and say 2 CDRoms on the Other Port, what would the actual transfer rate be for the HARD Drive? ATA 33? AS it would be for the ZIp Drive? Would it be best to put the HD on a Seperate Port...say a PCI IDE Port Card ?

Answer: ????

 

[Budman]

Read the FAQ's please.

Hard drive interfaces and standards

You can use a ATA33 drive on a ATA66/100/133 channel and since all current controllers provide independent device timing, they will not affect each other's operation.

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: Kinesis
Question:
If you have a board with two ATA 100 Compliant IDE ports, and you hook up a HD which is ATA 100 compliant and a Zip Drive on the same Port, and say 2 CDRoms on the Other Port, what would the actual transfer rate be for the HARD Drive? ATA 33? AS it would be for the ZIp Drive? Would it be best to put the HD on a Seperate Port...say a PCI IDE Port Card ?

Answer: ????

The vast majority of modern motherboards support independant device timing so both devices should run at their max applicable speed.

Thorin