Re: ATA-133 and ATA-100

From: Yves Leclerc (yleclercNOSPAM_at_maysys.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:31:41 -0400

You will need to also install the Intel Application Accelerator utility.
Intel has created this utility for its UltraDMA driver. It is supposed to
be the drivers.

"ah-nold fan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1fd3c01c458f8$bc8f0600$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have an Intel motherboard with the 865 chipset. For
> some reason, Intel doesn't support the ATA-133 interface,
> only the 100 and 66.
>
> I overlooked this part when I bought my hard drive and
> cables. I bought an ATA-133 hard drive and ATA-133
> cables.
>
> So far, it is working. It seems to be backwards
> compatible. Things seem a little slower than they used to
> be though. Most noticeably from my CD-RW/DVD drive. It's
> 52x32.52/16x and the transfer speeds seem noticeably
> slower than in my old system with older parts. Shouldn't
> be happening I think.
>
> The plan is to eventually use the ATA-133 Hard Drive for
> extra storage and hook up a S-ATA drive for my OS and
> applications.
>
> My question is, is there a difference in the cabling that
> would slow down transfers with mismatched interfaces?
> ESPECIALLY from my CD drive. Anybody experienced
> something like this?
>
> Yes, I am writing this before I've tried different
> cables, but I'm sitting here at work kind of hoping to
> get some input.
>
> Thanks in advance :)