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KlrMowse

02-14-2001, 08:33 PM

Are all the HDD that are ATA100 backwards compatible with ATA66 and ATA33?
How about all the ATA66 HDD's... are they backwards compatible with ATA33?

Thx.

mjc

02-14-2001, 08:43 PM

Yes they are backwards compatable except the highest speed will be that of the slowest drive on that particular IDE channel.

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