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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: local bus hard disk
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:26:38 GMT
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- Are current IDE drives able to handle local bus speeds?
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- I have a 213 MB maxtor, a 286-25, and a 12.5 mhz bus speed, and I have
- no video or drive problems. I had a friend's 120 mb maxtor in as
- a second drive for a time, and it didn't work properly at 12.5 mhz,
- but it did work at 8 mhz. I can't see the IDE card as being the
- problem, as it works fine for the 213 mb drive.
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- If some IDE drives don't work with a bus frequency higher than 8 mhz,
- how can they benefit from being in a local bus interface?
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