5 Connector IDE cable?

[BlakkIce]

i was in CDW and got this 5 connector ide cable i havent tried it yet but do i set the first one to master and the others to slave or cable select i wanna hook up my dvd drive cdrom and 2 cdburners

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Talk about IDE overload. Two burners and a DVD all on one IDE channel. Hope you don't plan on burning from one burner to another while you watch a DVD 🙂

 

[XMan]

Two drives per channel with IDE, period.

I'd bet your drive is actually SCSI.

 

[mindiris]

5 connectors in an IDE cable? Is that going to even work ?!?

 

[Mapidus]

IDE only supports 2 drives per channel. I have never seen an IDE cable with more than 2 connectors. Must have been a problem during manufacturing (or you got a SCSI cable/drive). Anyways, to hook up three IDE drives you will need to use at least 2 IDE cables and channels. One master and 1 slave max per channel.

 

[mindiris]

Unless you are speaking of procuring some development Serial ATA drives and cables from secret labs...

I agree with Xerox, it's probably SCSI.

 

[dowxp]

impossible on ide, must be scsi. think u got a 68 or 50pin cable..

 

[Generalen]

I got 2 ide66/100 cables with 1+4 connectors. These things are 36inches long. i'm sure it only support 2 drives / channel, though. Why are these extra connectors there ? I don't know, but what I know is it can reach two drives pritty far away from eachother with help from these extra connectors.

 

[AthlonMan]

IDE only supports two devices a master and a slave on the other hand SCSI depending if its uw uw2 or uw3 can support upto like 17 devices.

 

[bacillus]

you sure it's not a 6 Way Floppy Disk Cable ??

 

[Gunbuster]

It just has the extra port (4 ports total) to help you reach drives in a full tower case.
I have seen this used by some OEM's in rare cases

You can NOT use all the ports at the same time

 

[Mapidus]

Isn't 36 inches out of spec for an ATA66/100 (80 hard conductors) cable? I think max distance for an ATA66 cable is 18 inches.

 

[Zepper]

I suppose you could set up a bunch of removable drive trays on the extra connectors and just be sure you only have two drives on it at any one time.
.bh.

 

[Mday]

specifications is 18" max.

i used a 36" ata66 cable =) for a time. replaced them with rounded 24" ones which are also out of spec ;-)

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as for the cable blakkice, return it. IDE only supports 2 drives per channel.

if you want 5 IDE drives, get yourself an ata66 or ata100 controller. promise makes good ones.