Useless free Disk Caddies??

[bluepeter]

When taking out a subscription for CV, I opted for the Disk caddie as a "gift". I was so struck by the idea, I even order a further caddie.

And why useless? Well that is the case for me, since I intended to use them for disks to be used for video editing and since my motherboard supports ATA66 I chose to purchase a matching 17.3gb disk.

Having installed it in the caddie, imagine my dissappointment when it would perform no better than one of my old 2gb disks. The reason. The disk controller uses a 80 strand cable to achieve maximum performance. But the cable internal to the supplied caddies is only 40 strand.

It seems surprising to me that in supplying these "gifts" the expertise of CV did not come to bear and so recognise that the caddies to not support the current supplied ATA66 technology.

It now looks that I'm going tve to trash the "gifts" and source ATA66 compatible caddies.

A sorry tale, eh?

Peter

[bcrabtree]

This messageboard has a wonderful search engine.

If you'd used it, you'd have realised that your posting is not only unnecessarily unkind, but just, plain, unnecessary.

Below is the message you would have found.

This will, I hope, make your realise that the problem is to do with the drive, not the caddy, and easily solveable.

Bob (mortally offended) C

;)

Oh, by the way, I'm running an ATA66 17.3GB Fujitsu here (at home, at 2.20am!!!) in a caddy (it's greased lighting); and John Ferrick has two caddies, each connected to a Promise Ultra66 (ditto).

I'm running my drive in ATA33 mode (cos my motherboard doesn't support ATA66), John, of course, runs his drives as ATA66. BC - the posting I mentioned is below Pg Dn

Author Topic: Re Caddies and DMA66 drives
spudair
Member posted 18 November 1999 21:27
---------------------------------------------Should my new DMA66 (36gb) drive with the 80 pin cables work with the caddie i intend to install...
I plan to install the disks,caddie, cd writer
in the next week and want to be prepared

bcrabtree
Administrator posted 19 November 1999 02:39
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Yes!!!
(Thank goodness!)
The only issue is whether your motherboard supports ATA66 properly. If not (and most don't) then you'll need to download from the drive maker's web site a DOS program that gets the drive to report itself to the PC as being an ATA33 model (after which, it should run like an express train).

Bob C