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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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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fredjame@concentric.net href="mailto:fredjame@concentric.net">Fred
James</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック"><B>To:</B> <A title=discuss@ntlug.org
href="mailto:discuss@ntlug.org">Discuss North Texas Linux Users Group</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 29, 2002
06:18</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS Pゴシック"><B>Subject:</B> [NTLUG:Discuss] Hard drive
question</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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><BR>Elitegroup P6BX-A+ motherboard<BR>Award BIOS v4.51PG<BR><BR>(the
following information is from: <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/193/1/>"><http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/193/1/></A>)<BR>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2>The specifications of the
P6BX-A+ are as follows: </FONT></P>
<UL><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2>
<LI>Chipset: Intel 440BX processor
<LI>CPU: Intel Celeron, Pentium II & Pentium III
<LI>Bios: Award
<LI>RAM: 3 DIMM - Max 768MB
<LI>Slot: 2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 ISA/PCI shared and 1 AGP </FONT></LI></UL>
<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>Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
<LI>Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
<LI>Dual PCI IDE interfaces - PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 33
<LI>PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
<LI>ATX Power Supply Connector
<LI>Two USB connectors </FONT></LI></UL><PRE class=moz-signature cols="$mailwrapcol">--
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