Re: Harddrive ide cables

Phisherman wrote:
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.

Well my MOBO has both PATA and SATA. I have IDE 1 and IDE 2 and also SATA 1 and SATA 2 I already was running a 320 gig SATA on that mobo. I wanted to add another drive of the PATA variety in case the hard drive in another computer craps out I can use it there.
My mobo also has both the AGP 4x-8x video adapter socket and the PCI Express x16 video socket. It's a PCChips K8 A31G.

I just don't know why the fine wire ribbon cable don't work. Can they BOTH be bad? I suppose so OR incompatible with MOBO? I don't know.


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