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About LinkBacksI've been using an IDE to USB cable in my computer as it is WAY smaller, and attached my CDROM to a USB channel. Works fine, looks neater - no pics, unless you really want to see an empty IDE socket?
Nox
I've been using an IDE to USB cable in my computer as it is WAY smaller, and attached my CDROM to a USB channel. Works fine, looks neater - no pics, unless you really want to see an empty IDE socket?
Nox
Any problems with speed/booting/installing?
This may be an idea for a future case to keep the cables tidy ... good one Nox.
none at all - it gets picked up by the bios each time, i can boot from it if i want, and my current xp install was from it - nf4 board btw. I imagine some older BIOS's will have issues though...
Speed, no issue - its still annoying slow to 'spin up' and xfer rate is, well it atleast feels roughly the same. Doubt its faster, certainly isn't much slower, if at all.
Nox
Was thinking to doing this to move a drive over a meter from the mobo. Couldn't work out how to get power to the drive.
Where did you get the cable from? I can't find any (although I admit I haven't looked very hard) apart from ebay jobs shipping from the far east which I don't fancy.
I would imagine going around modding supply sites like KustomPcs would be fruitful.
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It was a long time ago, I did use it for work until recently, so can't remember the store name. It certainly had USB in the title though, and has a nice silver braid to it. I would try Kustom first though.
Nox
just type 'usb ide cable' on froogle
oh and i use rounded IDE leads...they are neat as well I think...and you can get them in UV whoo!
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