IDE cable - proprietary?
I have a compaq deskpro EN, Pentium III 733 mhz and the IDE cables
have a break in one of the wires about 1/8" long near the blue connector. Does anyone know why the cable is designed like this? I want to replace the primary cable with one that has a middle connector for a slave drive. Do I need a special compaq cable? |
IDE cable - proprietary?
That's a cable select type of cable. It expects any drives connected to it to
have a jumper placed on the CS jumper pins. The drive most distant from the motherboard is the master and the drive attached to the middle connector is a slave in the cable select scheme of things. These cables have become increasingly popular compared to the other type which require explicit master and slave jumper setttings. Most every name brand uses cable select cables... Ben Myers On Sun, 4 May 2008 17:34:51 -0700 (PDT), Paul wrote: I have a compaq deskpro EN, Pentium III 733 mhz and the IDE cables have a break in one of the wires about 1/8" long near the blue connector. Does anyone know why the cable is designed like this? I want to replace the primary cable with one that has a middle connector for a slave drive. Do I need a special compaq cable? |
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