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February 11, 2003 at 11:03 PM
nook99

IDE transfer modes

by nook99 . Updated 23 years, 1 month ago

If I set my IDE drives up like this:

Primary master = 9gbHDD ATA-100
Primary slave = CD-Rom UltraDMA/33
Secondary master = 40gbHDD ATA-133
Secondary slave = CD-RW UltraDMA/33

what effect will the CD devices have on the transfer rate?

It seems like in this setup, the HDD transfer rate for each channel would only be UltraDMA/33, not ATA-100. Doesn’t each IDE channel revert to the lowest common transfer speed?

Is this correct?

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