Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>     Time for another STUPID question.
>
>     IDE, E/IDE, ATA, ETC drives only have 40 pins.
>
>     My understanding is that in a regular 40 pin ribbon cable 20 line are
>signal lines and 20 lines are ground lines laid
>out in a every other line is a ground line fashion.
>
>     So, if you are adding 40 more lines to the cable;  what do they
>connect to?
>
>     I would seem that you end up with:
>
>        G G S G G S G G.......
>
>     Does that really gain anything?
>
>     Thanks for the education, In Advance
>  
>

Hi Don,

You got the understanding wrong there with all those extra grounds!

See http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confSig-c.html for an 
explanation of the actual signals on a 40-wire cable.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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