Ide Cable 80 Pin
The 80 conductor cable only adds 40 additional ground wires to the 40 ground wires already nestled between the 40 signal wires.
Ide cable 80 pin. The faster udma5 and udma6 standards require 80 conductor cables. The atapi 80 pin cable detection bios feature was incorrectly named because it actually refers to the 40 pin 80 conductor ide cable. Connectors and the 40 individual wires in the ribbon cable. The 80 wire cable provides one ground wire to each signal wire.
The 80 conductor cable was first defined with the original ultra dma modes 0 1 and 2 covering transfer speeds up to 33 3 mb s. Could that be the. I realize that it could possibly be because the old cable was an 80 cable 40 pin ide cable whereas the new one is a 40 cable 40 pin ide cable. I recently broke the ide cable that was hooking the unit to the external hard drive and replaced the cable however now the drive is giving me errors.
Nexhi 24 inches 40 pin 80 wire ultra ata 100 60 33 dma hard drive round ribbon cable with 18 inch 1 device floppy cable for atx 3 header connector 1x34 pin idc female cable kit of 2 cables. The cable you want to use will have only 40 wires not 80 wires. The 8200 cables should be 80 wire 40 pin ide connections the difference is the 80 wire cable has a neutral for each data wire if you are installing a retail dvd burner it will come with a new cable. 80 wire i have an external hard drive which uses an enclosure.
A cable built under the older ide standard is perfectly safe and it s easy to tell which one you have just count the wires ridges in the cable. I d like to know this as well both of the two 80 wire ide cables i bought had the connectors on them flipped the opposite way to the originals making wiring it in a bigger challenge the original would hook into the dvd drive then keep going up and at a right angle to the hdd the new ones would need to be folded 90 degrees twice and then coaxed to get to the hard drive. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for ide data parallel ata 80 pin cable for ide hard drive cd dvd optical drive at the best online prices at ebay. The 80 wire cable has 2 wires per pin which acts as both a ground and as emi protection.
5 0 out of 5 stars 3. It is necessary because at speeds over ata33 the wires will cross talk resulting in bit rot and frequent. 80 pin ide ata cable requirement. This is only true with the newer ide standard that uses a 80 pin ribbon cable.