Quick PC lesson.
IDE cables come in 2 flavours:
40 wire ATA33
80 wire ATA66+
Putting an 80 wire cable in, with the intention of running your spanking new ata133 drive in said mode will make no difference whatsoever, unless the xbox IDE controller and BIOS supports it.
The northbridge is more or less that off an nForce motherboard, so one would assume they haven't bothered to cripple the ATA133 compatibility. As to whether the xbox BIOS supports it.. well, 120gig harddrives were never in the original spec, so one wonders whether they'd bother. Certainly these new machines with 20gig drives will almost certainly be ata66 or above (if memory serves, ata66 became common around the 10 or so gig drive era), yet the 20gig drive xboxes also come fitted with 40 wire cables.
heh, unless I'm wrong.
IDE cables come in 2 flavours:
40 wire ATA33
80 wire ATA66+
Putting an 80 wire cable in, with the intention of running your spanking new ata133 drive in said mode will make no difference whatsoever, unless the xbox IDE controller and BIOS supports it.
The northbridge is more or less that off an nForce motherboard, so one would assume they haven't bothered to cripple the ATA133 compatibility. As to whether the xbox BIOS supports it.. well, 120gig harddrives were never in the original spec, so one wonders whether they'd bother. Certainly these new machines with 20gig drives will almost certainly be ata66 or above (if memory serves, ata66 became common around the 10 or so gig drive era), yet the 20gig drive xboxes also come fitted with 40 wire cables.
heh, unless I'm wrong.
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