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ATA133 Cable and DVD roms

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EstoyLoco

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Since I updated my HD, i've been using ATA133 cables for both my DVD rom and DVD burner as well.

They are both on the secondary IDE... My question is it ok to use an ATA133 cable on an ATA33 device?
 
ATA133 cables are backwards compatabile. As are all other ATA cables. So, using ATA133 cables on ATA33/66/100 devices is just fine.

\Dan
 
If anything you'll help improve the DVD ROM's performance because the ATA66/100/133 cables have a ground wire for every data wire, decreasing noise and keeping transmission errors down (especially useful if you rip CDs\DVDs with the drive.
 
Are the drives being detected? Try going into the BIOS and setting the drives from "auto" to "CD-ROM". That should speed things up for your detection.
 
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