> > Thanks to all who replied, your assistance was greatly
> > appreciated. I will get
> > back to one or two of you personally. It seems that I will not be able
to
> > install
> > my old drive in the new PC anyway as it has a 133MHz F/S Bus and
> > it probably
> > won't
> > talk to it.
> This is not correct.
> On all PCs the FSB is divided down to the normal PCI 33MHz maximum speed
for
> the simple reason that many peripherals will not go faster.
Umm correct me if I'm wrong but the speed of the FS Bus or PCI Bus is
nothing to do with the
issue of drive connectability but rather the IDE drive Types supported by
the drive controller.
The controller interface should be compatible with most IDE drive standards
apart from some
very, very old ones. The issue is more likely to be the fact that some
areas of the standards are
interpreted slightly differently by different manufacturers (and on
different models) making
connectability difficult...
As for PCI, it is not 33mhz standard but a divider of the FS bus rate...
Old motherboards
varried in bus rates other than 66mhz... pure 486dx50 motherboards had 25mhz
PCI slots.
A P120 had 60mhz PCI slots whilst a p133 had 66mhz slots, p150 motherboards
went to 50mhz
PCI I believe...
They decided to cap PCI at 66 because of peripheral tolerances... Note that
before overclocking
became popular (and therefore supported in many useful ways) driving your FS
bus up also drove
up your PCI and this was often what stopped the system rather than RAM or
CPU... No good if the
video card don't go right huh...
I would find out what IDE drive types are supported by the controller and
check it against those
supported on the drive... You may yet be in luck with the drive
connection... I've connected some
very old drives to quite new hardware in the past...
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Aaron@home
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