On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 09:27 -0400, Len Gerstel wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:11 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > > > > > Use any flat IDE cable you want. Use 80 pin cables if you want > > > speeds > > > greater than 33 megabytes per second. > > > > I thought an IDE cable is an IDE cable is an....so when you say to > > use 80 pin IDE for increased speed, what do you mean? Please expand > > It is not 80 pin, it is 80 wires. The cables still have the standard > 40 pins. Yes. I should have said 80 wire. The connectors are all 40 pin. I usually save the 40 pin cables for older systems. But, it is good to know that you can use them for any parallel ATA drive, in a pinch. I help people rebuild older systems pretty often. To tell if you have a 80 wire cable, you can count the wires. Or, a shortcut is to look at one end. Count how many wires are in the width of one column of 2 pins. Look at the connector that plugs into the drive as 20 columns by 2 rows. If there are 2 wires for every row of 2 pins, it is a 40 wire cable. If there are 4 wires for every row of 2 pins, it is a 80 wire cable. Does that make sense? You could also hold the cables up against a cable you know is 40 or 80 wires. The 80 wire cables are noticeably different. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
