On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Ralph Green wrote: > 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.
Ralph...thanks a lot for that and this does make a lot of sense. Now I'd take the weekend to go through my patch, find the 80 wires and use them. This is great to know. As you know, I'd always thought an IDE cable, is an IDE cable, is an....Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
