Author: Slater Wold
Date: 14:03:13 04/23/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 16:54:28, Kevin Strickland wrote: >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. I wouldn't bother. ATA33 is 33% slower than ATA100, but unless you're doing a lot of disk access, it shouldn't slow you down at all.
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