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Agreed on all but the chipsets that support it. The Apollo VP-3 (as on the
Rhino-12 motherboard) also has support for this standard, not just the TX.

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Robert Cohen <robert@cs.anu.edu.au> wrote in article
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> Steve Woods <swoods@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> 
> >Ultra ATA requires both a hard drive capable of it (only the Fireball ST
> >series, not the Fireball TM series from Quantum) _and_ an Ultra DMA
> >controller (at present only available built in to a few new
> >motherboards.  EIDE controllers just won't do it.
> 
> To more explicitly answer the original question of whether
> an Ultra ATA  drive would work on an EIDE controller;
> 
> Yes an Ultra ATA drive will work with an standard EIDE (non ultra ATA)
> controller, it just won't make use of the Ultra ATA capabilities.
> It will mount using standard mode 4 tranfer.
> And I would expect that most users would never notice the difference
> since Mode 4 transfer rate is well above the sustained
> transfer rates of standard drives.
> 
> The only motherboards at present that have Ultra ATA capabilities
> are those using the Triton TX chipset.
> 
> 
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