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Primary IDE Channel no 80 conductor cable installed

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Merovaeus

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I get this message when my computer's POST looks at the IDE channels. The motherboard is an MSI K7T Turbo2 with the VIA KT133A chipset. the primary IDE channel is connected to an unformatted drive. Does anyone know what this means or whether it's a problem?
 
It's the IDE cable. There are two kinds, 40 and 80 pin. If you put two of them side by side you can easily tell the difference.

If it's not 80 pin then the drive will run in UDMA/ATA-33 mode which is inherently slower than UATA-66/100/133. It's not really a problem, just that your hard disk won't be able to show its true colors.
 
but I switched out the cables and drives; used a cable I knew worked elsewhere, same thing. I'm thinking it has to be the mobo; one of the connector pins for the primary IDE is bent slightly but it still connects properly; the mobo worked before so i dont know what i did to it
 
Why dont you try creating a file system on this drive? Are you able to access it with FDISK, gdisk, etc? Is it visible in the motherboard BIOS?
 
Merovaeus said:
but I switched out the cables and drives; used a cable I knew worked elsewhere, same thing. I'm thinking it has to be the mobo; one of the connector pins for the primary IDE is bent slightly but it still connects properly; the mobo worked before so i dont know what i did to it
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I think you're misunderstanding feigned up there.

A 40 pin cable WILL WORK. It just will work slower. You'll be able to do everything with the drive: format it, move stuff on and off it, execute files from it, even boot if it's an OS on it. Everythign will just happen at 1/3 or 1/4 the speed it would if you had an 80 pin cable.
 
i know this is probably being picky but it's an 80 wire not 80 pin cable. there are still only 40 pins in an ide setup. the wires will look much thinner and closer together, but the cable ends will look the same. this is how you tell an 80 wire from a 40 wire
 
check the pin outs for an IDE connector, see if the bent pin is the 80-conductor sensor.
 
dualblade said:
i know this is probably being picky but it's an 80 wire not 80 pin cable. there are still only 40 pins in an ide setup. the wires will look much thinner and closer together, but the cable ends will look the same. this is how you tell an 80 wire from a 40 wire
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Yeah, you're right. Pickyass. :p

And as said, it should work just fine with a 40 wire cable.
 
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