ATA Compatability

alex_1800alex_1800
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Is a hard drive designed with an ATA 133 EIDE interface backward compatible with ATA 100/66/33? Does it use the same connection?



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  • Reply 1 of 2
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Yes, it is. You should use a cable rated for ATA-133 though. Another thing to look out for, if your computer isn't one of the latest Power Macs or so, it might not be able to make partitions larger than 137 GB because most older ATA controllers only handle a 28-bit address space.



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  • Reply 2 of 2
    microtrashmicrotrash Posts: 57member
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>Yes, it is. You should use a cable rated for ATA-133 though. Another thing to look out for, if your computer isn't one of the latest Power Macs or so, it might not be able to make partitions larger than 137 GB because most older ATA controllers only handle a 28-bit address space.



    [ 02-22-2003: Message edited by: Eugene ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Latest PowerMac is relative. My Quicksilver 2002 work well with my 160GB Western digital HD (one 149GB partition formated)
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