If you have a spare cable and don't like the cost of having cables made up for you, then you could try prizing the connector in the middle of the cable open and moving it nearer the end of the cable ( but keep it at least 3" away from the other connector)
Be very careful opening the clips, separating the halves of the socket and prizing the cable from the 'blades' bit by bit and no more than 2cm difference in the gap at either end as you do it Then - very careful positioning before you close the socket back onto the cable Proper care should give you about a 90% success rate with 80 strand PATA but only with flat, non bonded cable and interface plugs, and for reliability keep to cable lengths under 24" for 133's JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Enable DMA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://winhome.wavijo.com/ > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
