Does having a zip drive on same cable as my HD slow the HD down?

[Davegod75]

I have a maxtor 20gb ata-100 hard drive (primary) and a iomega zip 100 drive(slave) on the same cable, on the primary ide. The ide controller is ata-66.

does having the zip drive on the same cable degrade the performace of my Hard Drive at all?


thanks

 

[Viper GTS]

No. The only situation in which you would see less than full speed is if you were using both devices at once (eg transferring from one drive to the other). Since IDE can only access one device at a time, half the time your HD wouldn't have access to the channel.

Viper GTS

 

[Linux23]

yes, just like having a CD-ROM drive on the same IDE controller as a HDD it will slow down data transfers. the HDD has to wait for the ZIP drive in order to begin transferring data.

**What Viper said 🙂**

 

[gsaldivar]

This doesn't sound right -

you can use more than one protocol on a single cable?

The Zip drive is likely ATA33 or ATA66 - and his HD is ATA100.

Edit: Nevermind - I just noticed that he has an ATA66 controller - which means he isn't running the HD at full ATA100 anyway 🙂

 

[Linux23]

doesn't matter, it's all backwards compatible!



<< This doesn't sound right -

you can use more than one protocol on a single cable?

The Zip drive is likely ATA33 or ATA66 - and his HD is ATA100. >>

 

[Davegod75]

thanks...i guess the answer is no

 

[chuckieland]

ya

 

[SocrPlyr]

it will force your harddrive to only run at ata33... something you probably don't want...

Josh