HD controller qusetion

[midwestfisherman]

I have a MSI K7N2 Delta-L mb. I currently have a Hitachi 7200 rpm HD on it. I am planning on adding an older 17 gb HD that I have to this box. This will be used to run linux and to store files. No big performance demands needed for thesecond HD.

My question is if I add the older HD (ATA 66 - 5400 rpm) to the same controller as the current HD (ULTRA ATA100 - 7200 rpm), setting the older HD as the slave, will the controller run both at the slower speed or will it recognize the speed of each drive and run them accordingly?

Thanks.

 

[midwestfisherman]

Uh....sorry I thought I was in the Motherboard forum. DOH! It's been one of those days already. Mods feel free delete this post I will post this in the appropriate forum. Thanks

 

[Zepper]

That's all right, it actually belongs in the "Peripherals" section...
.bh.