PATA 100 and 133 hard disk on the same cable?

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Hi,

sorry for the silly question, but I found contradictory answers
around...

I have a Seagate barracuda hard disk specified as ATA100 connected to
the motherboard, which is 66/100/133 capable.

I'd like to add another hard disk to the same cable, but the one I
found is a 300GB ATA133.

Is the connection doable? Is the faster drive just running at 133
instead of 100?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Steve
 
stevels70 said:
Hi,

sorry for the silly question, but I found contradictory answers
around...

I have a Seagate barracuda hard disk specified as ATA100 connected to
the motherboard, which is 66/100/133 capable.

I'd like to add another hard disk to the same cable, but the one I
found is a 300GB ATA133.

Is the connection doable? Is the faster drive just running at 133
instead of 100?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Steve
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On the same cable, they will both run at ATA100. That is OK though.
Neither disk is fast enough to be slowed down by an ATA100 connection. In
other words, neither hard drive can read/write information even 1/10th as
fast as a ATA100 bus can transfer information. It will work fine. -Dave
 
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