Re: Harddrive ide cables

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:24:22 -0400, Blattus Slafaly 0/00 ? ? ?
<boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I bought a new 500 gig hard drive today. It came with an IDE cable with
a blue tip and the fine, tiny wires flat ribbon cable. Well it didn't
work with that cable. I have another cable like that that came with
another harddrive a few years ago. It don't work either. Only the old
fashioned IDE ribbon cables with the fat wires work. I thought the
wiring was the same; straight through; on both. So, what is it that I
don't know?


Blame the hard-drive controller. At this point I'd hesitate to buy a
new IDE drive controller, in favor of SATA.
.

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