Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:18:00 -0800
From: "Alan S." <as173 AT cornell DOT edu>
Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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My past experience with EIDE drives is that there can be problems with
putting anything except two 'same series' drives from the same
manufacturer on one EIDE channel.  One time, I had problems putting two
Maxtor drives which were only half a generation different on the same
channel. [However, I must really like Maxtor drives--I own 16 of them!] 

I have several PCs configured with 3 or 4 EIDE channels [using add-on
controller cards] specifically to avoid such conflicts.

Alan S.
2-14-2001


Patrick Moran wrote:
>
> I am going to give my brother my old Maxtor IDE drive when I take it
> out after getting the 4GB SCSI drive in and it will be very 
> intersting what problems I may run into when I install it on the 
> Primary Controller with his 850MB WD drive which are both supposed to 
> be ATA drives. I don't really expect a problem, because Maxtor was 
> one of the most compatible drives made.  (snip)