Best place to get round floppy and ATA/100 cables

[cjolley]

Any experiences good or bad out there?
Thanks,
chuck

[isochar]

I personally stay away from them, but people have reported good experiences with rounded cables from:

https://www.plycon.com

[AmSci]

I got some rounded cables from this place. I haven't had any problems with them so far.

http://www.colorcase.com/cables.html

[cjolley]

Originally posted by isochar
I personally stay away from them, but people have reported good experiences with rounded cables from:

www.plycon.com

Why stay away?
I thought it might neaten up the inside of my case as right now
I have 5 ribbon cables clogging things up.
chuck

[Technoid]

Well, let's say there was a reason for making them flat in the first place!

ATA100 cables have 40 pins and 80 cables:
One ground cable for every datacable.
Where the groundcables acting as isolators!

[cjolley]

Hmmmmm....
Maybe I'll just do the floppy and ATA cables.
That would still help.
Chuck

[GT98]

I got mine from Sidewindercomputers.com...not too bad of deal. If your worrying about performance...well I can live with the 2% or less loss that they might incur

Scott

[RichL]

I bought some 'ATA100' rated round cables for my new system, and could only get my ATA100 discs running at ATA66. I swapped to ATA100 ribbon cables and the mobo detected it at 100 right away.
Personally I'd go with the advice to use rounded only for floppy discs or ATA33/66 devices.

[Dr Mordrid]

By next year we'll start seeing SerialATA on mainboards and ribbons won't be an issue. ATA133 is the end of the line for the "normal" IDE drives & ribbon cables.

SerialATA uses round cables with 2 data and 2 power lines each. The onboard connectors will be about the size of your NIC's cable connector.

Dr. Mordrid

[The PIT]

I find it amusing that some web sites have tested these round cables and found them to be slightly faster. A few megabytes which I would say is the normal varition in testing.
The new ATA should be interesting when it turns up. We'll then need a faster pci bus.

[Dr Mordrid]

AMD's HyperTransport I/O system will meet this need by the end of the year: 25.6 gbits/s.

And about everyone is licensing it.....

Dr. Mordrid

[Jammrock]

https://www.pcmods.com

https://www.caseetc.com

https://www.3dcool.com

Of these, I have only done business with 3DCool.com. Case Etc comes highly recommended. PC Mods, I've heard of, but don't know anyone that has actually used them before.

Jammrock

[Wombat]

HyperTransport is not a bus. It is a point-to-point signalling protocol, and does best over short distances. It's cool, but it's not what I want to connect my peripherals with.

I'm looking forward to 64bit and/or 66MHz implementations that the current spec has had laid out for a long time, or the adoption of protocols such as PCI-X.

[Dr Mordrid]

Better get used to using HT for PCI 33/66 peripherals, although there will be a bridge chip involved.

Dr. Mordrid

[Wombat]

Go ahead, show me where. Sounds like folly to me. The only place a consumer sees HT right now is between the north and south bridge of the nForce chipsets. It's great there.

A bridge chip like what you talk about is feasible, but not practical. I've read the spec sheets for a couple ultra-high-speed parallel-to-serial converters, and they're not the kind of thing you want many of on a MB, too costly.