17-08-2004, 20:17
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Hard drives
I need to order a new hard drive to replace my current ailing one. It is an old pc with standard IDE plugs. Some of the HDD's I am looking at have EIDE and ULTRA etc.. interfaces,are they all compatible with the my old banger of a pc?
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17-08-2004, 20:19
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Re: Hard drives
What motherboard are we talking about?
AFAIK in any case only the speed of the bus will be the problem- a fast drive on a slow bus with a slow drive will run at the speed of the slowest device whatever that may be (mobo, Master HD, Slave HD).
Any info on the current setup (PIO / UDMA) would be appreciated...
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17-08-2004, 23:02
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Re: Hard drives
Motherboard is a Tyan trinity 1854, seem to remember seing UDMA when it boots up. So we are saying the newer drives should be backward compatible just at the slower speed of my old relic.
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17-08-2004, 23:14
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Re: Hard drives
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Originally Posted by mick70
Motherboard is a Tyan trinity 1854, seem to remember seing UDMA when it boots up. So we are saying the newer drives should be backward compatible just at the slower speed of my old relic.
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IIRC, yes.
You could just do a fresh OS install on your new drive with that as 1e Master, then copy your docs over and pull the old drive out...
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17-08-2004, 23:36
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Re: Hard drives
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Originally Posted by mick70
I need to order a new hard drive to replace my current ailing one. It is an old pc with standard IDE plugs. Some of the HDD's I am looking at have EIDE and ULTRA etc.. interfaces,are they all compatible with the my old banger of a pc?
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EIDE is just Enhanced IDE, it is backwardly compatible, as long as your motherboard supports the capacity size. Some older motherboards for example will see a 200GB HDD as 130GB. Ultra-ATA is part of the ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment ) standard, common speeds are 33, 66, 100 and 133 MBps, most are backward compatible.
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17-08-2004, 23:44
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Re: Hard drives
How old is your motherboard?
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18-08-2004, 00:21
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Re: Hard drives
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Originally Posted by Richard M
How old is your motherboard?
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could this be a modern replacement for 'does the team think' ? 
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