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Paul, Exactly…a high speed bus is useful in some instances. For example, if the system and drive support re-selection, the system can tell the drive to read X number of sectors and then disconnect from the bus. The drive can go read those sectors into a buffer…or at the least, seek to the proper track and then return onto the bus and do the actual transfer. If it's from a buffer, it can be quite quick, if it's from the drive, it won't be as quick…but the bus will not be tied up quite as long. Of course, this is only useful in systems where you've got multiple drives and are attempting read/writes from multiple drives in the same time period. For general use, a 2 Meg/sec bus is more than adequate. Don