Re: ATA-5 and ATA-6: The differences, and why it's important was Re: Lombard

2006-02-12 Thread B.L.
From: PeterH5322 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If both behave by the rules, then any combination works. If one behaves by the rules, but the other doesn't, then the combination is indeterminate ... might work, might not work. If both misbehave, then no combination works (Lombard and Pismo, and late

Re: ATA-5 and ATA-6: The differences, and why it's important was Re: Lombard Start

2006-02-11 Thread B.L.
G-Books wrote on 2/11/06, 17:16: On a typical PC, users and the OS have some level of control over just *how* the IDE interface(s) communicate with their drives -- they can tell a fast IDE controller to speak s-l-o-w-l-y with less-compliant drives. We Mac people have no such smarts