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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: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:11:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.015227.24034@sfu.ca> mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) writes:
- >DC> IDE interface. I guess the HD has to be specifically
- >DC> designed for the faster local bus.
- >
- >Yep, at the time I bought my machine only two drive manufacturers
- >supported the Rapid IDE Local Bus speeds. Western Digital and
- >Quantum's newer drives support it.
-
- So let me get this straight.
- Local bus has only one speed? or two?
- Any IDE drive incapable of at least 12.5 mhz ISA bus speed will or won't
- work with local bus IDE?
- Are current IDE drives being marketed as "Local Bus approved"?
- What's the deal here?
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