It is ok to use normal IDE cable with UDMA66 drive, then drive will act
as a UDMA33 device. To take advantage of UDMA66 interface, you have to
use the new 80 wire IDE cable (still 40pin connector), it looks like a
normal IDE cable but each of its pin is assigned to 2 wires.
Jun Qian
Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> I have just received a 13.5GB IBM ATA66 drive. I have been thinking
> that I can install it using regular IDE cables.
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