ATA-100 cable length question aGaiN

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Yep.. been kickin' this one around for a while. I have a tall server
case with six 5" bays in front. With a Promise TX2 FastTrack adapter
in an upper PCI slot.. 18" cables will reach the two lower 5" bays..
but to connect four ATA-100 drives on two cables requires 22" or 24"
cables.

It really was a `drag' to learn the spec was 18" ribbon.. so I could
not `pack' my big expensive serve chassis with mirror arrays.

What is the consensus on slightly longer cables for Promise TX2 RAID
for TWO drives.. and FOUR drives on two-channel adapter?

 

[Nuke]

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Spec still says 18.

You might get away with slightly longer.

That's the long and the short of it.


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<file_server@box.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yep.. been kickin' this one around for a while. I have a tall server
> case with six 5" bays in front. With a Promise TX2 FastTrack adapter
> in an upper PCI slot.. 18" cables will reach the two lower 5" bays..
> but to connect four ATA-100 drives on two cables requires 22" or 24"
> cables.
>
> It really was a `drag' to learn the spec was 18" ribbon.. so I could
> not `pack' my big expensive serve chassis with mirror arrays.
>
> What is the consensus on slightly longer cables for Promise TX2 RAID
> for TWO drives.. and FOUR drives on two-channel adapter?
>
>
Risky, IMO. Time to move to SATA