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If it makes a difference, it is a 120 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM - couldn't
find anything that said it was incompatible, though I did see that it might
want to be on its own IDE.<br>
Space is more the issue for me than speed, but I am sure I wouldn't mind
having both.<br>
Not looking at RAID just yet.<br>
I'll look into a PCI card.<br>
Thank you.<br>
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Daniel Hauck wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="MS Pゴシック" size="2">In general, I would say everything
should be just fine. But I don't know how large your drive is. The ATA/100
mode most likely will not be used and I have had only rare instances where
compatibility problems surfaces from that and these were limited to one
drive not wanting to work when connected to the same controller as another.
You don't mention the capacity of the ATA/100 drives so I can't comment
on that. But if you want access to the speed you want, I would recommend
buying a PCI controller that supports the speed. If you can find one that
does only ATA/100 you will find it will be cheap. I picked one up from
CompUSA for like $10. It worked nicely too... running a Linux software
RAID on it. (There's some trivia associated with that too -- it seems that
the Promise Fastrak 100 controller is merely a software RAID controller
in the first place -- I discovered that when I wanted to use my Promise
RAID controller with my RedHat 7.3 and they wouldn't supply the drivers
soon enough... I looked into it and finally realized that it's all driven
by software. I went out to find a PCI controller (Maxtor ATA/100) and realized
that the Maxtor and the Fasttrak 100 were IDENTICAL!!! The only difference
was the BIOS on board!)</font></div>
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<div><font face="MS Pゴシック" size="2">Anyway... I guess I'm going off in
a different direction... it's 06:30... go figure.</font></div>
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Subject:</b> [NTLUG:Discuss] Hard drive question</div>
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Will I be able to run an ATA/100 hard drive on my 1998 motherboard?<br>
Would upgrading the BIOS be of any benefit?<br>
Does upgrading the BIOS dangerous in terms of OS and data already on the
hard drive?<br>
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Elitegroup P6BX-A+ motherboard<br>
Award BIOS v4.51PG<br>
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(the following information is from: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/193/1/%3E">
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<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">The specifications
of the P6BX-A+ are as follows: </font></p>
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><li>Chipset: Intel
440BX processor </li>
<li>CPU: Intel Celeron, Pentium II & Pentium III </li>
<li>Bios: Award </li>
<li>RAM: 3 DIMM - Max 768MB </li>
<li>Slot: 2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 ISA/PCI shared and 1 AGP </li>
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<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> I/O: </font></p>
<ul>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><li>One - EPP/ECP mode
parallel port </li>
<li>Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports </li>
<li>Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120 </li>
<li>Dual PCI IDE interfaces - PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 33
</li>
<li>PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors </li>
<li>ATX Power Supply Connector </li>
<li>Two USB connectors </li>
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