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Originally posted by _John_Lennon_@6 December 2003 - 18:32
If its a Western DIgital, I know the papers inside explain about this.
Atleast in mine, it talked about *looks for documentation*
Okay, the advantages of ATA basically this, (atleast why they gave u a ata card with your drive.) The Current standard of IDE/ATA interface is 28 bit addressing and cannot recoginize more than 123.7 GB of storage. To over come this barrier, hard drives greater than this capacity have adopted a 48 bit addressing system (your ATA Card) with updated controller chips, BIOS codes, and operating system drives.
it's Maxtor 160GB>........and i dont have the ata card.....