IDE cables

Can anyone tell me how you can tell whether an ide cable is ata 133 or 100
please, as I have a spare one , I have an ultra dma ata 133 hard drive, the
cable that I have in there at moment I believe is only ata 100 as my old
board does not support ata 133, but my new board does

Thanks

Dave

 

You mean ATA 33 or the later 66/100/133 cables.
The later cables have 80 wires and therefore the wires are thinner
than the ATA 33 cables as they are packed into the same space.

HTH

 

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I dont really know, all I know is that my new board is ata 133 and my hard
drive is ultra dma ata 133, so I,m just wondering if the cable i got is ata
133, the wires look pretty thin and there is 80 of em

 

no difference as they are both 80 pin

 

Shep, just been reading yur web page about installing old hard drive on new
board, can you not just connect and bingo, and any changes will be made
automatically

 

Nope.There's some work to do.The new mother board may require mother
board specific drivers that came on an install disk or can be
downloaded from the maker's site.This can then leave dead incompatible
entries in the Device Manager but these can be fixed as on here,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/drivers.html