Ide Cables

[computergee]

Are there different speed IDE cables. Like if I pulled one from a 8 year old computer, would it be the same is if I bought one, or have there been improvents to speed up the transfer.

[bigears]

not that i know of. i don't think there is much they can do, as its all just wires and connecters. thats why SATA was invented. they only advance in IDE is round cables instead of grey flat ones.

[suchuwato]

wrong.

 

back in the day there were, but all the ones you buy now are 133

[computergee]

Ok, thanks. I wanted to know because I had some laying around that I wanted to round (thanks for the guide roadkill).

[MindDrive]

there are really only 3 types of "IDE" cables:

 

40 conductor 40 pin (usually for cdrom/dvd rom drives or found also in REAL old pc's)

 

80 conductor 40 pin FLAT ribbon (for use with ata100 and ata133 hard drives to allow dual data transfers)

 

80 conductor 40 pin ROUND IDE same as above cable except that the wires have been sepparated and bunched together - when selecting a round ide cable make sure that the wires are in twisted pairs and not running parallel to eachother

 

 

but as for "advancements" an ide cable is still just an ide cable - there are stranded wire (usually 40 conductor and softer feeling when u bend em) and there are solid wire ---- try and stay away from the stranded wire cables as the wire stranding sometimes may pull away from the connector pins and cause a poor connection - use 80 conductor ide cables for cdroms and harddrives

[bigears]

i will bear that in mind in future.

[dean25]

there are really only 3 types of "IDE" cables:

 

40 conductor 40 pin (usually for cdrom/dvd rom drives or found also in REAL old pc's)

 

80 conductor 40 pin FLAT ribbon (for use with ata100 and ata133 hard drives to allow dual data transfers)

 

80 conductor 40 pin ROUND IDE same as above cable except that the wires have been sepparated and bunched together - when selecting a round ide cable make sure that the wires are in twisted pairs and not running parallel to eachother

 

 

but as for "advancements" an ide cable is still just an ide cable - there are stranded wire (usually 40 conductor and softer feeling when u bend em) and there are solid wire ---- try and stay away from the stranded wire cables as the wire stranding sometimes may pull away from the connector pins and cause a poor connection - use 80 conductor ide cables for cdroms and harddrives

dude your replys are 1337 m8

[kobalt]

Cables are one thing but can some of you remember back when those nasty connectors at the end of those cables were as fogy as the years they came out?

Some had all the holes pierced and no plastic or pins on the outside to know back or foward how the h.. they went, some had but one hole blocked and if you were in a hurry you'd just bend the darn pin when plugged the wrong side <_<

Those were the days

[bigears]

ah, the good old days. when men were real men, and women were too.

[MindDrive]

Some had all the holes pierced and no plastic or pins on the outside to know back or foward how the h.. they went, some had but one hole blocked and if you were in a hurry you'd just bend the darn pin when plugged the wrong side

 

thats why they mark 1 wire with either red or blue ink - thats the #1 wire - if you look real close on your motherboard by the corner of your IDE connector you will see something like this:

 

1---------------------39

[::::::::::::::::::::]

2---------------------40

 

if you have an IDE cable without that little notch that is dummy proof as to not plug the ide cable in backwards--- you would line up the red colored wire with #1 - the same goes with the back of the drive - the red wire goes to the #1 pin

 

 

now some round ide cables use rainbowed colored wires - this DOESNT hold true since there are prolly several "red" wires ---- but then again these cables have the notch to line up with the IDE socket on the drive and mobo's

 

 

ty dean25 for the props but its not actually 1337 - its just paying attention to details and dealing with computers for 20 some years