Kevin Johnson wrote:
 
> I being troubled by my IDE drives, have swapped cables a couple of
times, the occurring hangups seem to be helped by pushing on the MB
connector. I'm using 80 pin cables, and I'm wondering is it possible that
the MB pinout is not quite kosher to the cable connector. Is there a spray
or lubricant that might assist in the contact?

Lubes are rarely appropriate for electronic parts.
 
> I've run chkdsk on nearly all the drives and partitions, but that
effort is flawed if the connection fails before completion.

If you've tried more than 2 cables I have to think you have a bad
connector on the mobo, or a failure of the IDE channel(s) on the mobo.
Do you have anything else you can swap the cables and/or drives into to
test? How old is the mobo? What is the maximum IDE speed capability on
your drives and mobo? Are you trying to use the mobo cable end on a
drive? Maybe a part of a connector has broken off and lodged inside the
cable connector.
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