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davage
10-29-1999, 08:42 PM
Hi.
Im about to buy a fireball kx hd. Its udma66 but my motherboard its udma33 (AX59PRO). It will work?. I want to upgrade it later.

If the answer is no..
Which 5400/7200 rpm and udma33 drive its cheap and good?
I mostly use winNT high end apps.

Thanx in advance.
buitenb
10-30-1999, 05:11 AM
yes i got also a quantum fireball ata 66
but you have to download a util from
quantum to set the drive to ata 33


jakob buitenhuis
Ygor
10-30-1999, 10:18 AM
Later on you can add a pci adapter to get the 66 performance if you have a slot available. The real advantage to this is up to 8 ide devices, 4 on the mobo and 4 from the card!
Susan
10-30-1999, 11:44 AM
From what I've read about ATA66 drives, I keep seeing conflicting reports on whether or not using a utility is necessary because ATA66 drives are backwards compatible and should default to Ultra ATA33.

I found some detailed info at Quantums site
www.quantum.com/app_notes/award_ata66.htm (http://www.quantum.com/app_notes/award_ata66.htm) that I thought was quite useful.