Can I master/slave these drives?

[FluxCap]

I just got a new 80gig 8mb cache(ata 133) Maxtor drive for my master, I want to put a slave on it...a 15.5gig (ata 66) Maxtor drive. Can I link them just fine with no settings to adjust rather than master/slave? I wasn't sure if speeds and/or cache would cause problems. They will both be formatted with NTFS in Win2k.

 

[moonshinemadness]

Shouldnt cause a problem set one to master, one to slave or both to cable select and have the Master at the end

 

[FluxCap]

Great, thanks. Just didn't have anything to do with my 15.5 now and figured I would use it for file storage. I just just curious if the differences in speed might cause strange errors, etc.

 

[Lalakai]

as long as you're using the hi speed cables and your mb/controller can take the 133, then no problem. as was mentioned, just select the drive setting for master and slave, and you should be all set.

on a side note, doing something very similiar was how I found I had a poor powersupply. by adding that one drive, it pulled enough from the over all system that i started getting crashes. After reloading my OS, formating and reloading, then finally changing ps's, I figured it out. just something to watch for.

 

[FluxCap]

I have ATA 133 rounded cables that I purcahsed from SVC. They support 66, 100, 133. My motherboard is the Abit NF7-S and yes it does support ata 133 and SATA I just added a new quality PSU (430 Truepower from Antec). Sound like I am all set??