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Is ATA 4 the as Udma 66?
Name: Johnny Date: March 29, 2000 at 18:33:03 Pacific
Comment:
I Have A Deskstar 14GXP DTTA-37101 10.1 Hard Drive. It Specifies Interface DMA PIO-4. But In Bios Its Getting Mode 2. This Is Plugged Into A Matsonic Mobo IDE Port, Not A Controller Card.
So What Ide Like To Know Is Will A UDMA-33 Controller Card Support Mode 4?
Summary: They are indeed the same thing. ATA, ATAPI and IDE are pretty much interchangeable, though I've noticed that ATAPI is more often used with CD-ROM drives for some reason I cannot fathom. Those terms ...
Summary: ATA and IDE are the same. ITs just that ATA is trademarked by Seagate and EIDE is trademarked by Western Digital. When something is refered to as ATA 66/100 it is refering to the transfer speed of th...
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