--- Felix Miata  wrote:

> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
>  
> >      I am not even sure I have a 80 wire cable.  Know I have
> > hundreds of 40 wire cables.
> 
> Hard to confuse the two. You know well what 40 wire looks like, with
> wires big enough to count to 40 with little or no magnification. The
> 79
> grooves on an 80 wire are hard to count without major magnification.
> Also, I've never seen any 80 wire that didn't use blue plastic for
> the
> motherboard connector. Never seen an 80 that violates the 18" max
> length
> spec either. 80 also remembers shapes much more easily. Much harder
> to
> kink a 40.

Don't forget too that the 80 wire cable selects the master/slave too.
All the modern drives have CS in the jumper field for Cable Select. The
blue connector goes to the controller, the black at the end of the
cable is Master, the gray is Slave. Of course the bios must support
this. One can also use the 80 wire with the drive jumpers set as master
and slave on an older motherboard that doesn't support cable select or
an old drive doesn't have CS. Supposed to have a cleaner signal.

Franklin


	
		
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