Hi Spanners,
I'm using both a ATA66 drive (Master) and a ATA33 (Slave) drive on the Primary Controller. The ATA66 is Master and even with the other drive added, it still runs at ATA66. This seems to work with any ATA33 drive alongside it - the second drive is in a caddy so I can swap drives out between other PCs.
What I've done is to disable the Primary IDE on my Tekram BX chipset dual CPU mainboard, which is a standalone PCI card through the BIOS and use the ATA66 controller. The Secondary IDE on the mainboard is used for my Pioneer 6X DVD (Master) and Ricoh MP7040A CD-RW (Slave).
The controller has a Promise chipset, but is sold as an Asus product. Purchased with my new 13.6G IBM HDD at Christmas from Videocom in Golden Shopping Centre, Sham Shui Po, HK.
You will need a special ATA66 cable though. The one which came with my card only had one drive connector. A new one with two connectors should set you back about HK$30.
Good luck and if you've any problems, email me at:
[email protected]
[This message has been edited by techie (edited 09 April 2000).]