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I have an older Dell computer with a Maxtor 98196H8 80 GB hard drive which
has failed. I would like to replace it with a Maxtor DiamondMax 16 Plus 9
120 GB ATA 133 drive (Maxtor # 6Y120L0). I believe the old drive was an ATA
100. The system is a P3 850 MHZ with 512 MB of RAM running Win 2K. Will
the Diamond Plus 16 ATA 133 work in the system or is there a better way to
go. Fred

wrote:
> I have an older Dell computer with a Maxtor 98196H8 80 GB hard drive which
> has failed. I would like to replace it with a Maxtor DiamondMax 16 Plus 9
> 120 GB ATA 133 drive (Maxtor # 6Y120L0). I believe the old drive was an ATA
> 100. The system is a P3 850 MHZ with 512 MB of RAM running Win 2K. Will
> the Diamond Plus 16 ATA 133 work in the system or is there a better way to
> go. Fred
>
>
ATA 133 is mainly a marketing ploy. There is *no* PATA drive now made
which can exceed the capability of ATA 100.

Virg Wall
--
A foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds,........
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Microsoft programmer's manual.)