- Re: Hard drive questions
- Posted by Jonny on February 24th, 2006
Okay, I'll play your silly game.
Drive fits the 2nd ATA convention specs.
For all practical purposes, ATA = IDE
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- Posted by cliff on February 24th, 2006
GregRo wrote:
Where and what resulted in this as your choice of hard drives? You want a
40 Gig drive sold by Gateway that is 5400 RPM and made by another
manufacturer?
- Posted by Bob I on February 24th, 2006
It should work just fine, plug in the actual model number from the drive
in here for everything you ever wanted to know about the drive.
http://support.wdc.com/productspec.asp
GregRo wrote:
- Posted by Al Dykes on February 24th, 2006
In article <468onlF9srgdU1@individual.net>,
GregRo <webworm11@lycos.com> wrote:
IT DOESN'T MATTER. Any 40G disk will work fine in any PC made in the
last 5 years, or more. If your PC is older than that , it'll work but
you may need a trick to get abeyond the old 32GB wall.
ATA, IDE. It's all the same thing for your purposes.
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- Posted by cliff on February 24th, 2006
GregRo wrote:
"I a little confused on how to find out what type of hard drive
purchase.
I have an ide cable going to the hard drive.
So will any ata100 drive work?"
Sorry I misunderstood you.
Cliff
- Posted by Jonny on February 25th, 2006
So the hard drive backpedals to UDMA100, so?
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