From: "Randy H" 

Odd--XP supports the HPT370 out of the box. Check Highpoint's website?
(http://www.highpoint-tech.com)

IMO, ATA133 will only make a difference if you get the WD drives with the 8 MB
caches-otherwise, it's a wash. You'll be damn lucky to saturate the ATA66 bus.

Got Partition Magic v8?

"Ned F. Reiter"  wrote in message
news:3e4bba82{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm about to upgrade my XP Pro system with more disk space.  I am looking
> for recommendations as to what is the best 120GB 7200 ATA133 IDE drive to
> get.  My onboard IDE controller is on 66MB but I intend to upgrade the
mobo
> at a later date, but want the faster drive now so I'm ready.  Am I correct
> in assuming that a 133MB drive will work on the 66MB bus but at the slower
> speed?
>
> My boot drive (13.6GB) is partitioned into 3 NTFS partitions and two Linux
> partitions (ext2 and swap) with the primary XP install on the second drive
> (40GB) as drive K:.  The second drive is partitioned into 9 NTFS and one
> FAT32 (for sharing with Linux) partitions.  What is the procedure to get
all
> of these copied over to the new 120GB drive and still be able to boot the
> system?  I'm sure I'll have to change the boot.ini file, but need some
help
> in determining the proper values for the partition entries.
>
> The mother board is an ECS D6VAA with an onboard Highpoint 370 Raid
> controller but I can't find XP drivers for it.  There are W2K drivers but
I
> don't know if they will work with XP.  If there are working drivers, I'd
get
> 2 drives and configure them as Raid 1.  The HPT370 supports ATA100.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> --
> -- Ned --
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>
>

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