[ILUG] hard disk

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 12:30:54PM +0000, Dermot Gorman mentioned:
> Hi,
> way off topic but - I'm buyin a new EIDE hard disk, could anybody
> tell me what the difference between UDMA33 and UDMA66 is.
> Will it work on an older motherboard, i.e. of pentium 166 vintage?
> Dermot.

 Yeah, it's just "DMA mode 4". Ye olde Pentium boards supported DMA mode
2, so teh drive should just fallback to that.

Kate

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