shortening udma66 cables?

[ronnysteele]

Hiya.

To clean up the cabling inside my box, I've sleeved up
all the cables and made a lot of breathing space in there
now. One thing I'm stuck with for now, though. There's
two harddrives in my box, raided, each one on its
own (rounded) ribbon cable. Now those udma66 cables
come with three connectors, yanno. One for the mainboard,
one for the first harddrive, one for the second. And exactly
that second one I don't need. It's getting in the way only.
It's cluttering up space. It's gotta go.
Can I just cut it off? Anyone ever done it?

-Ronny

 

[Owl]

This is what i use only 4.99ea.
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[Owl]

http://www.nexfan.com/42/cat42.htm?180

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[Owl]

http://www.nexfan.com/

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[4Ryan6]

Just take a sharp pair of scissors and cut the top part off just past the slave connector and the slave becomes the master, inspect the cut with a magnifying glass to make sure the cut is clean, before you use it, and if the motherboard end of the cable is not blue mark the end, for reference purposes, that would have normally plugged into the motherboards IDE slot. I have a RAID configuration myself and I cut my cables, and they're working just fine as a matter of fact and it may just be my imagination, it seemed to improve response somehow, it shortened each cable by about 6 inches.

You never know what you can do until you try.

 

[Crashman]

I cut cables quite often with a razor sharp knife. Just lay the edge of the blade flat against the connector (on the side you want to cut off) and start cutting.

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