ATA 100 or ATA133 [Archive] - Novatech Community Forums

paris

12-05-2007, 03:03 PM

I am looking at replacing a fault HDD within my PC and I was pricing up a HDD and noticed it was a ATA100 and after checking my motherboard manual, it says it can support up to 4 ATA133 devices.

I am not sure what this ATA is, but if I bought a ATA100 would it still work?

Taxation

12-05-2007, 05:46 PM

ATA means
Advanced Technology Attachment

is it a wide ribbon or a thin strip?
im guessing the first one.
should be fine with ATA100

paris

13-05-2007, 07:08 PM

Wide ribbon, I think, my hard drive is connected to the same cable as my DVD drives, so if memories serves me that's a 40pin connection.

Danno

13-05-2007, 08:13 PM

if its on the same cable as your dvd drive it will be an IDE / ATA drive.

you will be able to replace the faulty drive with any ATA100 or ATA133 drive.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/prod ... z1p0s0n0m0 (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a753x1y0z1p0s0n0m0)

teknokid

14-05-2007, 04:55 PM

hope you backed up :O