UDMA Cables?

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I have an ASUS main board with UDMA 100/66 and am wondering

could i use standard IDE cables from an ATA133 machine to hook the IDE hard
disk to the board or would i need to purchase UDMA cables?

I have seen UDMA cables on ebuyer and they look very similar to IDE cables
if not identical

do i need to spend more or can i just take them out of my old ATA133
machine?

Thanks (In advance)

Chris

 

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"Christo" <chris@juststuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I have an ASUS main board with UDMA 100/66 and am wondering
>
> could i use standard IDE cables from an ATA133 machine to hook the IDE
> hard disk to the board or would i need to purchase UDMA cables?
>
> I have seen UDMA cables on ebuyer and they look very similar to IDE cables
> if not identical
>
> do i need to spend more or can i just take them out of my old ATA133
> machine?
>
> Thanks (In advance)
>
> Chris
>

and i am assuming i can use a standard IDE hard drive with UDMA yeah?

 

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Yes you can use the cables they will fit and the drive will work, however
you will not get the same throughput from your old 40 line cables as you can
achieve using the newer 80 line cables.

Crimson Liar


"Christo" <chris@juststuff.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Christo" <chris@juststuff.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:2pheoaFkkuakU1@uni-berlin.de...
>>I have an ASUS main board with UDMA 100/66 and am wondering
>>
>> could i use standard IDE cables from an ATA133 machine to hook the IDE
>> hard disk to the board or would i need to purchase UDMA cables?
>>
>> I have seen UDMA cables on ebuyer and they look very similar to IDE
>> cables if not identical
>>
>> do i need to spend more or can i just take them out of my old ATA133
>> machine?
>>
>> Thanks (In advance)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> and i am assuming i can use a standard IDE hard drive with UDMA yeah?
>


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Christo wrote:
> I have an ASUS main board with UDMA 100/66 and am wondering
>
> could i use standard IDE cables from an ATA133 machine to hook the
> IDE hard disk to the board or would i need to purchase UDMA cables?
>
> I have seen UDMA cables on ebuyer and they look very similar to IDE
> cables if not identical
>
> do i need to spend more or can i just take them out of my old ATA133
> machine?

You don't have to spend extra on some fancy quality cable. If the cable has
80 wires (count them 😉 ) you will be fine.
80 wires (40 of them connected to pins, 40 as ground) are needed for
operation over ATA33 (UDMA2). 40 pin 40 wire can only be used up to and
including ATA33.
There really is not more to it than that.

 

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"Egil Solberg" <egilso@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Christo wrote:
>> I have an ASUS main board with UDMA 100/66 and am wondering
>>
>> could i use standard IDE cables from an ATA133 machine to hook the
>> IDE hard disk to the board or would i need to purchase UDMA cables?
>>
>> I have seen UDMA cables on ebuyer and they look very similar to IDE
>> cables if not identical
>>
>> do i need to spend more or can i just take them out of my old ATA133
>> machine?
>
> You don't have to spend extra on some fancy quality cable. If the cable
> has 80 wires (count them 😉 ) you will be fine.
> 80 wires (40 of them connected to pins, 40 as ground) are needed for
> operation over ATA33 (UDMA2). 40 pin 40 wire can only be used up to and
> including ATA33.
> There really is not more to it than that.
>
Cheers for the help people

 

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Christo wrote:

> and i am assuming i can use a standard IDE hard drive with UDMA yeah?

Yes. Question is a bit hard to interpret, but yes.