Is ata 66 cable supposed to have hole in it?

[bdog]

Are ata66 cables supposed to have holes in them? The hole is near the connector and breaks the continuity of of one of the wires. What is the purpose of this if it is supposed to be there?

[seti]

You need that hole like a hole in the head. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Mntsnow]

Seriously guys...Take a look at your cables and see if you have the hole in yours. Both Bdog and I need to know as we each have a cable that has a hole in the same place...but I also have other cables that dont have the hole....

Consider this a survey http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Mntsnow

[smokin1]

Mine has a hole in it on by the blue connector abot pin 34....
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[ParaDeath]

Mine has a hole too =)

I feel like I'm apart of something HUGE! hehe

[ParaDeath]

BTW: How do i get those happy faces in the body of my message?

Someone please learn me

[arn]

Yes, it has a small slit, about 1/4" - 1/2 ". The instructions will tell you about it, if you got your board from Abit.

[seti]

HAHA! Guess who feels dumb???

Come on, it sounds weird, a hole??? I had never heard that or noticed that in any pictures of the ata66 cables...sorry.

[welsh wizard]

ParaDeath
Type : ) or ; ) or : ( but do it one after another without the gaps so http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
WW

[Mntsnow]

Well Bdog looks like we got our answers! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif All's well that ends well http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I did some digging and found that the "hole is in one of the "ground" lines so it's not to important I guess (but I thought they were needed to prevent the "cross-talk" on the faster buss speed. But it looks like it's OK to have the SINGLE little hole but DONT HAVE MORE http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif LOL

Mntsnow

[BEOR999]

The hole is normal, it's a CABLE SELECT CABLE

If the jumper is on the cable select pins, on the HDD, the system uses the cable select feature to determine whether the device will function as a master or slave, rather than using a jumper or switch on the device. This is IDE’s way of providing Plug and Play functionality. In order for this to work, a cable select cable must be used. A cable select cable is an IDE cable that has line 28 open (cut) between the two device connectors.

In addition, jumpering a device as master or slave overrides the cable select cable. This means that you could use a cable select cable without actually using cable select to determine master or slave.This may, however, cause problems and is not recommended.

If you use the cable select jumper to set a device’s setting, you must have a cable select cable.

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[bdog]

thanks everyone for your input. Especially BEOR999, you really cleared things up for us.

[ParaDeath]

welsh wizard

Thanks much!

WAX on WAX off http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by ParaDeath (edited 12-17-1999).]