Promise ultra ATA 133 controller

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 06:01:47 -0500 (EST)


I was thinking ATA133 added an extra bit for overhead/control tags
allowing more usuable storage space. I think the pre ata-133 controller is
limited to like 80gigs, but don't quote me on that it is monday.



On 13 Jan 2002, Tom Rockwell wrote:

> 95% of the time, you won't notice a difference between an ata66 and an
> ata133 connection - the disk itself is still the limiting factor.  A new
> fast disk will be fast even on the ata66 adapter...
>
> Of course, there are other reasons besides performance to get an extra
> adapter - many people want more than 4 ata devices...
>
> -Tom
>
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