To people who cut their ribbon (IDE) cables....

[Kayes]

I haved recently did my IDE and floppy and it works fine. Neater and cooler internally now.

But I got a question to all those vet outside.

Can you do a 50 wire SCSI2 cable?
Will it affect the performance?

Thanks.

 

[Zeroumus[DH]]

scsi is fine too

 

[Kayes]

Zero,
How are you?
Did you cut yours too?
Any personal experience?

Should cutting my burner's SCSI2 cable tomorrow.

 

[Zeroumus[DH]]

I have cut every cable imaginable

40pin IDE
8opin IDE

8 connector scsi
flopy

68 pin
on and on, none seem to get mad or are difficult to do

 

[pdo]

Same here. I've done it and never got any problem from it.

 

[corkyg]

Unlike a lot of things in this world of ours . . . shorter is better when it comes to cables.

 

[Francodman]

can someone gimme a link as to how to cut those damn cables??

 

[Zeroumus[DH]]

I don't have a link,, but what is there to know, just cut-em

 

[Francodman]

Do you cut, then re-attach??

 

[pdo]

It's easy but you gotta be careful with it. I usually use an exacto knife and just slice one little cut and then just tear it apart with my finger.

 

[Duckers]

I have a similar question:
what is the maximum lenght of an IDE cable ?
I would like to run some IDE drives externally due to a small case problem

 

[Mday]

http://www.hardocp.com/articles/cooling/round_cables_howto/round_cable_howto_pg1.html

take that francodman.

 

[Mday]

duckers, spec is 18" for any 2 drive IDE cable. that's 12 inches for the controller and first iDE connector, and 6 more between the first and second.

of course, 36" and 24" cables work fine... I have 24" 80\40 cables now.

min is 6" or else, you get a mess.

 

[Duckers]

ok, thanks

 

[Mandrill]

I have cut down the lenght between the first ide socket and the second to 3 inches with no problems

 

[StanFL]

Hmm, I run ATA66 drives on Abit/Highpoint controllers on my BE6 mobo. Before cutting them when loading the Highpoint drivers screen it detected the drives as UDMA4. I After cutting them (down to the 6" sections) they now report as UDMA2.

Perhaps it twasn't such a good idea....damn, wish I had some hard drive benchmarks saved from before.

 

[monahan]

I heard it takes about 1ms for a signal to travel about 18 inches

 

[Soccerman]

actually it should take less even, depending on the cable's resistance. at best the signal would go the speed of light.

 

[Burn]

The speed of light? How about the speed of electricity...

 

[Burn]

Unless you have some cool fiberobtic harddrive cables..lol

 

[helloedchen]

Francodman - if you need help, I can help ya personally or just hit the link in my sig. Got a compact guide on cuttin it. HTH.

 

[Kayes]

Hello guys,

just cut my 50 pins SCSI2 cable for my burner. So far so good.
Haven't tested cos haven't got anything to burn yet.

 

[cobain]

With my 50 wire SCSI cables I just cut them ever 5 wires then stack them on top of each other. In my opinion it looks neater. Shame you cant do it to U2W cables as they are causing me problems.

 

[Spook]

1ms to go 18in... thats good...

No, Ive seen IDE cables up to 48" myself...

As for cutting SCSI, Hell, I've built my own SCSI cables before, cutting them off at a connector isn't a problem, just don't leave any copper hanging out.

 

[Nater21]

The speed of electricity or electron drift velocity is actually not fast at all. It seems fast because all of the electrons move at once giving you an instant reaction. IT is analogous to a 50 ft. garden hose. If the hose is empty it takes some time for the water to get from one end to another when you first turn the water on. If the hose is full, as soon as you turn it on, water comes out the other end.

The speed of light has nothing to do with it.