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Are the Ultra ATA/33, Ultra ATA/66 and Ultra ATA/100 interfaces backward compatible?

April 26, 2017ATA backward compatible interfaces Ultra

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Are the Ultra ATA/33, Ultra ATA/66 and Ultra ATA/100 interfaces backward compatible?

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All Seagate Ultra ATA/100 drives are backward compatible with Ultra ATA/33, Ultra ATA/66, and legacy ATA interfaces. However, due to the inability of some ATA host controllers and motherboards to properly interface with Ultra ATA drives, Seagate suggests using the “toggle” utility to set the Ultra ATA/100 drives to Ultra ATA/33 or Ultra ATA/66 mode for better compatibility with a non-ATA/100 host controller or motherboard.