[dba-Tech] Ghosting an old HD to a New HD

On 5 Mar 2006 at 23:14, Josh McFarlane wrote:

> How's that work?
> 
> I would have figured the bottleneck would be at the source of the
> bottleneck. If you use a ATA 33 cable, you're capped at 33, if you use
> an ATA 66/100, you've got independant channels for each device, and
> thus shouldn't have any problem between the drives, unless of course
> you're using an old controller that doesn't support the higher
> standards.
> 
> Can you post a link to somewhere that explains that the controllers
> clock-down to the lowest device on the independant cables?
> 

I posted it over the weekend:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_Performance.htm
for all the gory details and 
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/confRecommendations.ht
ml for recommended configurations in different situations. 
-- 
Stuart