Is my HDD an ATA and is on ATA bus 0 ???

My powerbook is 1,67 GHZ and 80 Go and won't boot , the optical drive is broken , so i use target disk mode to reinstall it . But it shut down when i press the "T" button to enter TDM. And if i don't press "T"
According to Apple ,I must be sure that my hard driver is an ata and on ATA bus 0 because "it's normal for a computer to shut down while entering in Target Mode if it hasn't detect any ATA hard drive on a ATA Bus 0
What is ATA Bus 0, the only thing i know is that my Hard is an ATA/IDE
What to do for solve this problem ???

There is another reason you may not be able to enter target disk mode, which is if you have a firmware password on your system. See this Apple note: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1352
My 1.67Ghz Powerbook has the internal hard drive as defined By Apple, ie, there's no option to change the ATA bus designation, and it can enter target disk mode.

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Hello!
I have a few more questions...
I only have 2 internal drives...
(one 300GB which is the main one that runs the applications and one 60Gb used as extra storage mainly for my video projects)
Do I need an ATA/133 PCI controller card for them?
will it really be worth it?
(meaning will it actually make a difference in speed or not?)
or do you only need one of those cards if you have 3 or 4 drives?
also,
would adding more RAM (up to the 2.0 GB limit)
(my comp is currently at 1.25 GB)
make a huge difference?
and the processor...
if i upgrade it to the 1.8 GHz
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the processor,
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I know I posted this somewhere earlier,
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Hi-
You don't need a controller card.
If you keep your main drive(s) on the ATA/100 bus (rear carrier), and add (if you like) up to two drives to the ATA/66 (forward carrier) bus, for storage, archives, etc., you will have fine performance from all drives.
If you are going to add a drive, I would add a larger drive to the ATA/100 bus, and move the smaller (60gb) to the ATA/66 position, relegated to storage. Your graphics work (is it?) will then run well on the two drives on the ATA/100 bus.
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b
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_white_paper0900aecd8022c2cc.shtml
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ATA133 = 133Mbps
SATA = 150Mbps
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Hello,
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