Re: very confused on >137GB drives with k7s5a??

I just got a Maxtor 160 with an included ATA/133 card. I used the
ATA/133 card and partitioned the drive (less time to defrag the
smaller partitions).

I haven't had any problems yet, but have only been using it for about
a week now.

Is there a reason you don't want to use the PCI card?

I have other PCI cards that must move a lot of video data - in
addition to the AGP video card.

I would guess that it could slow things down as the IDE drives are
probably on a different bus than the PCI cards (but I could certainly
be wrong about that - maybe it would be faster transferring data from
one PCI to another).

I'm using my 160 as my 2nd hard drive with win2000 SP3 with the
registry update for large drives - without the card - and have not had
any problems on my k7s5a pro.

Regards, Les Caudle

On 25 Jun 2003 13:49:08 -0700, (WROSIE) wrote:

>I just got a Maxtor 160 with an included ATA/133 card. I used the
>ATA/133 card and partitioned the drive (less time to defrag the
>smaller partitions).
>
>I haven't had any problems yet, but have only been using it for about
>a week now.
>
>Is there a reason you don't want to use the PCI card?