IDE cable help please!

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Hi,

What does the pin/strip on the edge (furthest away from the red pin/strip) do please on an internal IDE ATA133 cable?

I've just built a system and have connected a 120gb maxtor hdd to this cable and it's installed windows xp fine but ive noticed that i accidentally shredded and destroyed that end strip of the IDE ribbon and I'm wondergin if I need to buy a new one or is that strip quite insignificant. I don't want to risk my data with a dodgy cable.

Thanks!

Reply to samkayani

You mean you damaged the latest wire of the cable? I don't have a clue where it is used for (I would need a pin specification for IDE drives to figure that out... and even then it could be a bogus cable, because ATA133 cables have 80 wires and 40 pins... the 40 unused wires are to keep the signal clean). but I would go for safe and buy a new cable.

My CPU fan spins so fast that it creates a wormhole :eek:

Reply to svol

I'd buy a new cable, I'm sure that wire has some function.

IDE Cables are cheap. I have a box of extras. Hell, I'd give you one if you lived nearby.

"I'm a man armed with a fork in a land of soup."

Reply to bdaley

You mean the plastic pull tab that some cables use? They mean nothing.

<font color=blue>Watts mean squat if you don't have quality!</font color=blue>

Reply to Crashman

if any of the wires are damaged, you need a new cable. they are cheap.

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