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Litesol

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😕 I recently purchased a 80 gig hard drive and it was advertised as a ATA100 drive. Is there any way that I can check this to confirm that it is ? I have seen simular drives advertised yet they are ATA 66
drives. This is a "Generic " drive and was sold as a barebone{no manuals or software}. The drive itself does have Quantum chip set on it. Are there any software programs that would show this information?

Thanxs,

Litesol
 
Win2k and my BIOS both show what my drives are.

ive never heard of a "generic drive " before though.
it sounds lie it is an OEM maxtor/quantum.

if i remember correctly, Sisoft sandra shows what make/model your drives are as well.
 
If you have it plugged into the ATA100 IDE channel, it should tell you whether it detects an ATA100 drive when you boot up. Hope this helps.
 
I looked in Sandra and all it says is that it is a Generic IDE disk drive Type 47.
When I check the bios the drive info flashes so quick I cant read it . If I select auto detect it just locks the screen and I have to reboot the system . My manual says that my motherboard only handles ATA 33.



 
Well pardon the cynicism, but if your mainboard only supports ATA33, does it really matter if the drive is 66 or 100?
Also any program that doesn't read the firmware of the drive will only report what the drive is currently running at, not what it's capable of.
Which means it'll say ATA33.

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