On Jun 15, 2009, at 12:18 PM, insightinmind wrote:
> Just for the main hard drive connection: > > So it is NOT ok to use the UltraATA cable (Space Shuttle-D, Cd & Pb > Free, 80wire/40pin) supplied in a Retail Box Kit along with a Seagate > UltraATA drive as the cable off the Apple mobo, because of a HP/ > Compaq patented method of interrogating the drive at Startup, in my > Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz? I need to put back the short one with the > slit (hence Cable Select cable), and set my Seagate to Master, > because ... > > This article: > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1815 As usual, Apple covered too much in a single post. Many "free" (i.e., "retail") cables are 80-wire/40-pin and are also Cable Select. These MAY BE USED in place of the short cable ... if you can figure out a way to fold them without also breaking the conductors. The 80-wire/40-pin cables have #30 AWG SOLID conductors, and are fragile. The 40-wire/40-pin cables have #28 AWG stranded conductors, and are not as fragile. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
