IDE Cables

[kovermours]

How can I tell if a certain IDE cable is 80-conductor or 40-conductor?

 

[punisher]

Originally posted by kovermours
How can I tell if a certain IDE cable is 80-conductor or 40-conductor?

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[kovermours]

They look the same to me

Am I missing something here?

 

[jpmkm]

40 pin cables have fat wires and 80 pin cables have thinner wires. The wires in 40 pin cables are the same size as a floppy cable. The wires in 80 pin cables are quite a bit thinner. If they look the same then they probably are the same. And 80 pin cables typically have a blue connector in there somewhere. There's a comparison picture at the bottom of this page.
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[Mad_Pyro]

Yeah - listen to the man above.

 

[Ice Czar]

both will have 40 pin connectors (since the additional 40 wires are all ground) and aside from the obvious 80 wire count, will typically have a blue (mobo) grey (slave) and Black (master) connector

 

[kovermours]

thanks everyone