Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations?
To: Notorious B.R.I. <itai@replic.net>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/08/2002 08:30:42 
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

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