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    Question 3/4 IDE device cable...


    http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture_...?DataName=IDE3
    saw this and thought "i wonder if that still runs ata100/133 and doesn't kinda lag out the ide controller.."
    does it?
    and also is there any other 3/4/+ IDE cables, sold in the UK please.
    Also does anyone own one of these?

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    or is it just a cable for a controller card?

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    It's useless if it really is a 3 device cable because controllers have only primary and secondary disk capability. IDE controllers simply can't control more then 2 devices per connector. It could be for a custom controller I guess but I've never seen one.

    It may work if you had a tape drive that could use part of the IDE interface (data transfer stuff) without interfering with the drive controller portion of the cable, but that's a stretch I think.
    Last edited by StormPC; 02-03-2005 at 03:32 AM.

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    yeh thats what i thought, you can only have primary and secondary channels... this is probably just for a IDE/SATA controller card like a similar site that I found... Pity you can't have like Secondary Master/Slave on each channel. That way you could have 8 devices. I know some motherboards like the Soyo KT333 Dragon Ulra Platinum had 3 IDE channels...

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    Yeah I've seen these at computer fairs, never thought about them really...just assumed you put your drives on cable select and it worked, but I am prob wrong!

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