Cables and IDE drives
02 April 2004, 01:00 PM
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Cables and IDE drives
About once or twice a year I get a corruption on my XP OS which prevents me booting.
I thought I'd double check my IDE cables at a first pass, does anyone know what cables you need for which type of IDE drives running at what speed? ie I seem to remember you need a 80 cable, 40 pin for certain drives.
Is there an idiots guide to this anywhere?
cheers,
greg
I thought I'd double check my IDE cables at a first pass, does anyone know what cables you need for which type of IDE drives running at what speed? ie I seem to remember you need a 80 cable, 40 pin for certain drives.
Is there an idiots guide to this anywhere?
cheers,
greg
02 April 2004, 01:17 PM
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Just get 40pin connectors for ATA100/133 IDE drives. These days they come as rounded cables. These cables are backward compatible with ATA33/66 so will also work with your CD/DVD drives, and older harddrives.
Harddrive speed doesnt matter, unless youre running SATA discs which use a completely different type of connector anyway.
Harddrive speed doesnt matter, unless youre running SATA discs which use a completely different type of connector anyway.
02 April 2004, 02:47 PM
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You mean get 80 wire cables of course ? They all have 40 pins, its just on the 80 wire cables, the extra 40 wires are connected to ground to reduce interference and cross talk.
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