Most hard drives (including drives by Quantum, Seagate, and Western Digital) should be backwards compatible with older ATA technologies. So if you have a motherboard who's controller only supports ATA-33 operation your drives should automatically work.
Some users have reported that they need to use the drives with older, 40-wire IDE cables to get a more advanced drive to work with their older ATA controllers or motherboards, and still others have found they need to use manufacturer provided software to disable the higher speed modes.
Either way, the newer ATA-100 hard drives will NOT damage your older motherboard.
Even if these newer drives work however, they will operate at the fastest speeds supported by your motherboard rather than the speeds the are rated for.
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