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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! 
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.
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