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Paddy1 · 01-06-2005, 02:00

80 pin cables were introduced with the advent of ata66 drives. Using a 40 pin cable will reduce the throughput of the hdd to that of an ata33 drive. If you have a cdrom attached to the same cable as the hdd then your throughput is reduced anyway because the cdrom will drag the hdd down to its speed so, with the cdrom attached to the same cable, you are getting ata33 speeds from your hdd regardless of the cable used. So you may as well run with the 40 pin cable. Out of curiosity, does the drive work on the 80 pin cable if the cdrom is not attached? Sounds like it might be a conflict between the 2 different devices.

01-06-2005, 02:00	#34
Paddy1 cf.addict Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 352	Re: Won't detect HDD 80 pin cables were introduced with the advent of ata66 drives. Using a 40 pin cable will reduce the throughput of the hdd to that of an ata33 drive. If you have a cdrom attached to the same cable as the hdd then your throughput is reduced anyway because the cdrom will drag the hdd down to its speed so, with the cdrom attached to the same cable, you are getting ata33 speeds from your hdd regardless of the cable used. So you may as well run with the 40 pin cable. Out of curiosity, does the drive work on the 80 pin cable if the cdrom is not attached? Sounds like it might be a conflict between the 2 different devices.