To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: Enable DMA
>>next to a box full of 5.25" floppy drives). Get you one of those adapters
from http://www.cyberguys.com/
I believe that you have this bass ackwards as he states "the 5.25" bays are too far" away.
You can not move a 5.25" device to a 3.5" bay. You can move a 3.5" device to a 5.25" bay. I am doing this with SATA hard drives on some occassions. The move from the 3.5" bay to the 5.25" bay is to locate the two devices close enough together for the IDE cable to reach. If the IDE cable is so short it will not reach that far from the motherboard, then this will not work. The IDE cable has to be long enough to reach from the motherboard to the upper area where the 5.25" devices are located.
How does reversing a cable make it longer ?
The cable has to be long enough as mentioned above. That short distance between connectors will work for devices that are within 2 to 4 inches of each other, if the cable is long enough. A device upstairs in a 5.25" bay is over 5 inches from a device downstairs in a 3.5" bay.
Chuck
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