On 6/30/04 12:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent >> Hypothetically, does the cable (if it is not OEM) that >> goes from the Ultra ATA bus to the hard drive have to be Ultra-ATA? If it is >> not, would the hard drive still be seen, or would it not mount? > > If it is 40-wire, the drive will be recognized, but the data rate will be > limited to the lower of 33 MB/sec or the drive's maximum rate. > > In this machine, all an 80-wire cable does is improve the noise margin of > the bus as the bus controller is itself limited to 33 MB/sec. > > Later Macs supported UATA/66 or UATA/100, for which an 80-wire cable is > necessary. > Again, Peter, thank you. This is what I suspected. Right now the drive is unrecognized; swapping cables doesn't help. I've yet to do common things like zap PRAM, hard reset, etc. Any other way to wake up the bus? Thanks again, Dana
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