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- From: dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: local bus hard disk
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:55:10 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- In article <1993Jan25.192638.1458@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- >
- >Are current IDE drives able to handle local bus speeds?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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?
-
- Well, I guess the keyword there is *some*. I'm having no problems with my
- Western Digital Caviar 340 in my Gateway 2000 486-66DX2, which uses the local
- bus for both video and IDE interface. I guess the HD has to be specifically
- designed for the faster local bus.
-
- Dan.
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