On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:08:56PM -0700, Notorious B.R.I. wrote: > Yes, an IDE bus will operate at the speed of the slowest device. This is > IDE specific, not NetBSD specific. Probably because the (capacitative) loading of the slow device it (assumed to be) too large for the higher speed signals. David -- David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk