[NTLUG:Discuss] Round IDE Cables

[Kelledin]

On Saturday 29 March 2003 09:52 pm, Chris Cox wrote:
> >  From a cooling and general handling standpoint, these seem
> > to be very desirable.  Just want to know about gotcha's
> > beforehand.
>
> Search the net... you'll find that IDE cables in particular
> are probably the highest risk rounded cable.

If you're talking about 80-conductor IDE (ATA66/100/133) cable, 
then really, they're high risk for any sort of serious handling.  
Folding, stacking, creasing, you name it, it tends to severely 
degrade ATA66 performance.  Just a limitation of the technology, 
apparently--ATA66 is trying to expand via a signaling technique 
that SCSI already outgrew.

Serial ATA is supposed to address these problems, but there's not 
a lot of serial ATA around yet. :(

-- 
Kelledin
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