New hard drive question

[Chris A]

15GB EIDE ULTRA ATA/100 LP DESKSTAR 7200RPM 75GXP
I just purchased that drive at a great price. but i noticed that it is ATA 100.

My old drive is a western digital ATA 66. It came with software to change it back to ATA 33.

The new IBM drive is oem and I was wondering if I will need software for it. My motherboard only supports ATA 33.

Is there a page on the IBM site with downloads for their drives? Do they have any cloneing software? I have searched all over that site and found nothing.

 

[JimMc]

Try here http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm it has all the files you need.


Edit: BTW, IBMATASW is the utility to set it up for ATA 33, Disk Manager Disk Go! is to overcome any BIOS limitation you may have, both available on that IBM page.

 

[Chris A]

I have a Asus P2bf with the latest Bios so it should handle the drive.
Thanks for the link that should help out a lot.