> It turned out that ribbon cable appropriate for this application was either > not available or too expensive.
Are standard disk cables a reasonable length? (and a pinout you can use) I don't know the details, but there are two types of disk cables. The old style uses standard 40 pin ribbon cable with not-great grounding. The new/fancy style uses 80 pin cables but the same old connectors. I assume the extra wires are grounds with some magic in the connector to connect them all to the IDE ground pins. (so they won't work for arbitrary pin assignments) There is also twisted-pair ribbon cable. There are untwisted/flat sections every foot or so where you can install standard connectors. I'd expect it to work well if used with differential pairs. Digikey carries it. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
