Are my cables normal?

[SoyBoy004]

I have just recently purchased like 4 abit products, ie raid card, mobo...etc. all of them came with a ata100 cable, but each of them had a hole in one pin of the cable. is this normal?

 

[brxndxn]

sure is.. You got yourself some holy cable. Holy cable is good.

 

[d33pt]

yeah i was wondering about that too.. what up with that?