Well, I bought the motherboard that came with the blue IDE connector before ATA100 came into standard. Maybe the mobo guys saw that the cable be useful with at-the-time-draft-probably ATA100 but I doubt it...
-Mark On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Mark K. Kim wrote: > > > We have a computer at work with ATA100 connection. The wires *are* > > significantly smaller compared to non-ATA100 and does have blue connector > > ends, though the ends fit non-ATA100 devices... But my ATA66 also has a > > blue connector end. > > I think the 80 conductor cable can be used just fine at lower speeds, and > it is insurance for UDMA66. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ PGP key available upon request.
