40 pin IDE cable v. 80 pin

[Coyote]

OK, so using a 40 pin cable on your ATA 100/133 HD will cripple performance. But what about optical drives? Are they all ATA 66, and would a 40 pin cable adversely affect its performance? (I'm out of 80 pin IDE cables and got a few 40 pinners sittin around, wanna put'em to good use)

Thanks,

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[randy66]

most optical drives are ultra DMA 2 or 3 (33/50)
the 40 pin cable would do fine for most drives

 

[Crashman]

All your IDE cables are 40-pin. The ATA66/100/133 cables have 80 wires, the ATA33 cables have 40-wires.

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[4Ryan6]

Now that Crash has straightened you out about the difference between pin and wire count, the only drives you need 80wire ATA cables on are HDDs period, did your new CDROM, DVDROM, CDRW, DVDRW come with an ATA66/100/133 Cable, no it didn't because they all transfer at ATA33, and you do not need the high performance cables for them.



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[Coyote]

Great,
Thanks all

Mobile XP 2600+ (11X200)
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
BBA 9800 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE