Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> > So what you are saying is that running a disk in U66 mode without the
> > 80-pin cable can physically damage the drive? Talk about a shoddy
> > interface design...
>
> So if you put gasoline in your desiel mercedes does that make it a shoddy
> car? No, maybe a stupid car owner.
>
> If you put a SCSI-I on an UWSCSI-3 and talk to it a UWSCSI-3 speeds do you
> not think that you will have problems?
>
> You will not damage the drive, but you will damage the data in worst
> cases.
>
> Andre Hedrick
> The Linux ATA/IDE guy
Sorry, I mistook you for saying that you physically damaged the drive.
The fact that the interface cannot detect if the 80 pin cable is present
or not is pretty stupid though.
--Brian Gerst
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