Rumor has it that Doc Shipley may have mentioned these words:
    I'm also trying to figure out how a 2" IDE
cable can go south.  It did,
 though.  I have 2 drives that the setup can see fine with another cable,
 but the short one is toes-up. 
Short "flexi-things" generally don't flex nearly so well as long
"flexi-things."
I've seen lots of short cables "cross to the other side" in my day.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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