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Lucern · 07-07-2006, 02:48 AM

I'm (still) building my machine from components I got last week. It works now, but it looks more like an alien autopsy than a computer, thanks to the annoyance of IDE cables and my motherboard (pretty much top of the line...) has only one IDE host adapter. Long story short - I've got a stack of 17 DVDs holding my hard drive up to the level of the CD-ROM drive just so that I could install Windows and get the drivers for an ATA card.

Wellard - about that IDE cable, could it have been a 40 pin, struggling to function in newer devices that would have preferred 80 pin? I only discovered the difference this week.

While we're on the subject, I found a cool article about the technical details of ATA/IDE.

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/...ct_ide_hd.html

07-07-2006, 02:48 AM	#8
Lucern Quintesson Join Date: August 28, 2004 Location: the middle of Michigan Age: 43 Posts: 1,011	I'm (still) building my machine from components I got last week. It works now, but it looks more like an alien autopsy than a computer, thanks to the annoyance of IDE cables and my motherboard (pretty much top of the line...) has only one IDE host adapter. Long story short - I've got a stack of 17 DVDs holding my hard drive up to the level of the CD-ROM drive just so that I could install Windows and get the drivers for an ATA card. Wellard - about that IDE cable, could it have been a 40 pin, struggling to function in newer devices that would have preferred 80 pin? I only discovered the difference this week. While we're on the subject, I found a cool article about the technical details of ATA/IDE. http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/...ct_ide_hd.html