rounded ATA100 cables!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

www.pccables.com/images/01518.jpg

[Guru]

Look closley on the "mobo conector"(the blue one)! Is it just me or does it look like an ata-33 cabel?

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[Guru]

Jepp as I suspected there is only 40 cables! So it's not an ata-66 (UDMA-66) cable!

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[Bohrn]

I often wondered why we still used the ribbon style cables. The round ones make alot more sense.

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[ayoub_ibrahim]

Bohrn,serial ATA will be with us next year!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Guru, here's a link giving description of cable as ata66/100 http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orde...les.com&rcode=

[Guru]

Originally posted by ayoub_ibrahim:
Guru, here's a link giving description of cable as ata66/100 http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?ac tion=Showitem&id=ID284609&partno=01518&search=RIBB ON&rsite=www.pccables.com&rcode=

Ok!

Still they are showing an ata-33 cable!

[Wombat]

Bohm: cost is the primary reason.

Does anyone know why they advertise twisted pair wiring? I thought there was only 1 pin/signal.

[xortam]

I imagine they're using twisted pairs to reduce noise injection ... they're not adding more signal lines.

[Michel]

Here in Holland there are other rounded IDE cables for sale. They look a lot longer to me then the ones posted above:



[This message has been edited by Michel (edited 18 November 2000).]

[Wombat]

But twisted pair is only good for filtering noise if you're using differential amplification, right? There doesn't seem to be a way to detect common-mode signals.