"Tom Walker" wrote to "Mike Ross" (05 Jun 03  07:16:02)
 --- on the topic of "IDE twins."

 -> I read some place that the same speed drives should be on one controller
 -> cable to minimize data corruption. Mixing the speeds results in more
 -> problems according to what I read.

 TW> I find that Hard to Impossable to believe. The Data transfer rate is
 TW> Totaly controlled by the Drive onboard electronics. IT will just NOT
 TW> try to accecpt data faster then it is capable of. And when the buffer
 TW> is full it will issue a Stop order and wait until it can process what
 TW> it has..

I'm just relating someone else's experience who did try. I've never
encountered this problem personally because I've always used the same
type drives so I can't confirm it. Your logic makes sense but there
might be some factors we are unaware of. For example the dma speed is
set high for the first drive and perhaps the 2nd drive may read mangled
bytes from time to time. I found this does indeed occur with SCSI i/o
when the dma speed is set too high. Not sure if it also applies to IDE.

... A lightning bolt partitioned my hard drive.
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