Rick,

I have four ATA133 Maxtor drives (2 120 GB, 2 160 GB) running in a machine
with some quality rounded cables on a PCI ATA133 Maxtor controller.  They
have been running for many months without any issues.  The boot drive is an
ATA100 40 GB Western Digital running on the motherboard's ATA100 controller
with a quality rounded cable.  Also no issues.  Windows 2000 Pro.

Fred Nielson

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Subject: [PCBUILD] round IDE cables


Hello Everyone,

I have a question about round IDE cables.  ATA 100/133 have an extra 40
wires in the cables to reduce noise. Does rolling up these cables defeat the
purpose of the noise reducing extra wires ??? Has someone actually tested
these round cables??

TIA

Rick Torres

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