"Glenn C. Lasher, Jr." wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Venkat Swaminathan wrote:
>
> > It is connected to an ATA33 ide controller on the mb. I am not
> > sure about the cable but I would assume it is an ATA33 cable.
>
> Count the wires in the cable (not the pins at the end). Both ATA33 and
> ATA66 cables have 40 pins at the end, but the ATA66 cables have 80 wires
> to those 40 pins.
Regarding this issue, I've been told that you should use an ata66 cable
with all ata66 drives, regardless of what kind of interface it's
connected to (ata33/ata66). The reasoning was that apparently, the
ata66 cables are better at isolating the signal from noise.
Anyone confirm this?
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