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>In article <1993Jan25.192638.1458@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
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>>Are current IDE drives able to handle local bus speeds?

Well, I called Maxtor tech support today, and got someone on the line that
could answer my questions.

He said that Maxtor IDE drives are designed for 8.33 mhz bus speed, and
if they actually work at higher speeds then that is just gravy, but their
design spec is only 8.33 mhz.

When I asked about local bus he said that they were just now, or were
about to start to acquire a variety of 486 Local Bus computers to
test their drives on. (!)  At this point I was wondering why they
just didn't take the receptionist's 486 local bus computer and try
it, but I didn't ask.  Anyways, I thought it was interesting that
Maxtor really didn't have an answer to the local bus IDE question,
and if he was telling the truth, that they are a little slow in
doing some very basic r&d...