At 11:59 PM 3/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On an Utra DMA IDE Bus the bus speed will be that of the slowest device
>on the bus. If you put a high performance ATA100 hard drive on the
>primary with a CD Rom drive that bus will operate at the speed of the CD
>ROM drive. The only performance over a DMA33 hard drive that you will
>see is from the disk rotation of the ATA100 drive 5400 or 7200 rpm.
>Harold Bush
>Chief Technologist

This is incorrect. This hasn't been an issue for at least five years.
Modern controllers are smart enough to differentiate between various
devices on the same channel without any performance loss. There is however,
an on going argument about where on a ULTRA cable you should put a master
and a slave, ... the question being, should you put the Master on the first
or second connector....although my experience has shown that it doesn't matter.

Rode
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