Re: ATA-3 drives

1997-12-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:57:10PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > ATA is, I do not think the problem I think ATA is short for ATAPI. Not exactly; ATAPI is ATA Peripheral Interface, with ATA being the AT Attachment IIRC, with AT being "Advanced Technology" (cough) :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt

Re: ATA-3 drives

1997-12-31 Thread Aaron Walker
As it says on my HD box: Buffer Size: 256KB Average Seek time: <10MS Data Transfer Rate: 33.0 MB/Sec (Ultra DMA-Mode 2) Ultra DMA is also known as Ultra ATA. It has twice the speed of IDE drives. George Bonser wrote: > ATA is, I do not think the problem I think ATA is short for ATAPI. >

Re: ATA-3 drives

1997-12-31 Thread Aaron Walker
For ATA drives, you need a special ISA card. My HD (Maxtor 3.5) supports it, but I haven't bought the add-on card yet. It supposed to be superFAST (I think almost as fast as SCSI). I think the card is around $70 from CompUSA. Britton wrote: > I am looking at buying another system myself. I

Re: ATA-3 drives

1997-12-31 Thread Britton
I am looking at buying another system myself. I have never heard of ATA though. Is it something I should want, or just more hype? Is it likely to be supported under Linux 2.2? On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > george bonser wrote, > > > > > 1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives >