I noticed quite a speed improvement when I went to a ATA66 drive.
However, you do not HAVE to use it.  An ATA66 drive will work in ATA33
mode if your BIOS does not support it.  You can install the new hard
drive and change to an ATA66 controller later or wait until you upgrade
your motherboard to get the faster speed.  Just wanted to mention this
since you say that you are adding it mainly for the extra disk capacity.

----- Original Message -----
From: Carol Hooton <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 6:13 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HD Upgrade


Using Win95 OSR2  on a Gateway Pentium 200 with MMX.  Adding a new
Maxtor IDE HD with ULTRA ATA/66.  Bios only supports ATA/33.  Should I
install an ULTRA ATA/66 Controller card or do you think I wouldn't
notice the difference?  I'm adding the new drive mainly for added
capacity reasons.

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