yer everyday Ide cable is like this:
H-------S---M
with H for home (motherboard) S for slave, and M for master, now i'd like to cut this into an extremely short cable S----M but use the slave connector to connect to my mobo, this because it's only used to connect from my mobo to the single HD on that connector, is this a good idea (I'm especially thinking about signal reflection, the cut-off end would not have a "terminator" so signals would bounce off it, I dont even know if this is a issue for IDE or not, but I'd like to know before I put my HD on my homemade cable.
thanks in advance.
Boran.
H-------S---M
with H for home (motherboard) S for slave, and M for master, now i'd like to cut this into an extremely short cable S----M but use the slave connector to connect to my mobo, this because it's only used to connect from my mobo to the single HD on that connector, is this a good idea (I'm especially thinking about signal reflection, the cut-off end would not have a "terminator" so signals would bounce off it, I dont even know if this is a issue for IDE or not, but I'd like to know before I put my HD on my homemade cable.
thanks in advance.
Boran.
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