Actually, I'm not even sure ATA is backwards compatible. I don't know if it will even accept an EIDE drive on an ATA/33 bus.
Auqa
It is. IDE, EIDE, ATA/33, ATA/66, ATA/100, ATA/133, UDMA, UATA, they are all compatible.
I don't mean to sound hostile or stupid here, so forgive me if it seems like that. My question is twofold, specifically:
a) Will putting a UATA/33 drive on a UATA/66 bus work. The older drive can't feed data to the bus at 66MHz, so if the bus doesn't support 33MHz transfers it shouldn't work.
b) Will putting a UATA/66 master and a Ultra ATA/33 slave on a Ultra ATA/66 bus slow the max throughput of the entire bus to a theoretical 33MBps (assumes the answer to a. is yes).
I'd like to point out, while we're being pedantic about naming systems, that "ATA/33" doesn't really exist, rather it is "Ultra ATA". Also UDMA isn't really an ATA protocol, or even real, merely indicates that DMA is available on the UltraATA device.
Aqua
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