On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Daniela Engert wrote:

> >Does it really matter what end of a IDE cable you plug into the motherboard?
>
> Long answer: you may get away with old 40-wire cables, but with 80-wire
> cables you *have* to plug the correct cable connector (usually blue,
> sitting at the end of the longer cable segment) into the motherboard
> connector. The two cable segments are different! Otherwise you may see
> all sorts of unexpected behavior.

Really!  Are 80-wire cables no longer straight-through connections?

 

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