Help with Access to Old Hard Drive

On 05/15/2014 01:10 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Same as any other. I got the feeling that when he said "doubled" he was actually referring to the IDE ribbon cables that actually have 80 wires in them. They started showing around the right time frame for the hardware mentioned. I don't recall the specifics as to why they used 80 conductor wired for a 40 pin connection; I believe it had something to do with reducing crosstalk & interference at the higher speeds of the (at that time) newer hard drives. -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 Can be found on IRC - #bikeshed on irc.dal.net "Computers have lots of memory but no imagination." "The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back." - from some guy on the internet.