Author: Kevin Strickland
Date: 13:54:28 04/23/02
I have an older PIII 550 that I am using for online games that is also my webserver. Over the past few days I have had some problems where the drive just seems to lock up. I have tracked the problem down to my ATA100 card. The drive runs perfectly fine on the ATA33 controller that is on the motherboard. My question is.. on this old system is it really going to matter whether I use ATA100 or ATA33? How much of a speed decrease am I going to notice? Should I go out and get another card? On a side note it seems I also can't install Linux with most of the newer ATA100 cards out there. I had some problems as well with the one that just died. Any help would be really appreciated. Since hardware is such a big thing here I was hoping I would get some help here.
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