[KLUG Members] re: 80 wire cable

[Mike Williams]

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> Subject:
> [KLUG Members] (no subject)
> From:
> "Peter Buxton" <somercet@fastmail.fm>
> Date:
> Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:52:20 -0800
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> To:
> "Members" <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
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>On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:22:38PM -0500, Mike Morrett was only escaped   
>   alone to tell thee:                                                    
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>>> "A 40-pin, 80-conductor IDE cable must be attached to the host system                         
>>> and the hard drive."                                                                          
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>I just plug in the ones they give me.                                     
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>I would imagine that 40w might mean 40 wide, or double strand.
>

According to spec, the higher speed IDE modes require an 80 wire cable, 
even though the connectors are only 40 wire.  Some kind of differential 
signaling trick with the extra ground wires that I've never understood.  
Cables that come with a drive that supports these higher speed modes 
(ATA 133, 100, and I think 66) are almost always 80 wire.  It's easy to 
tell by looking at the wires, and they usually have a blue connector at 
one end, which goes into the motherboard or controller.