JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> Hello, Roy.

 JH> Retail pkg a la Maxtor has drive, booklet, 80 conductor IDE cable,

 RJT> 80?  Will that need something different at the other end?  I'm only
 RJT> looking at the standard stuff on the MB here...

 JH> They only have the std 40 pin configuration on the connectors. 
 JH> AFAIK the extra 40 are most likely redundant grounds.

To give the cable better signal characteristics,  I guess.

 JH> Those 80-pin cables are needed for the UDMA100 and faster transfer 
 JH> speeds.

Ah.

 JH> Won't matter much right now for you, since you don't as yet have 
 JH> any boards or controllers which support UDMA100.  I'm guessing your
 JH> new celeron board supports UDMA 33, maybe 66.

I haven't fired it up yet (no ram in it) to see what it'll do...

But I was wondering about that when I was reading the above paragraph.  

I'm not sure yet whether I want to go with a full install on that box or a
minimal install and get the rest of what I want off the primary machine, 
over the LAN...

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