From: "Paul Ranson" 

I think 18" is about a wavelength at 600MHz.

I think it's unlikely to be an issue at ATA speeds, serial ATA could be
another matter.

SCSI (even plain old SCSI-1...) has always had to be correctly terminated,
but it was expected to work over several metres.

Paul

"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
news:bi2jtuc0regc9i9qhhdrm24fnltinr32d2{at}4ax.com...
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:27:50 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote
> in message :
>
> | Better tranmission line characteristics, too.
>
> Is an 18" ribbon long enough to act as a transmission line?
>
> --dnb
>

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