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Just bought KT7-raid can I use the ata/66 cables with non ata66 devices?

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unsped

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I just bought a KT7-raid and I guess it comes with the standard one floppy and hard drive cable. And since its a raid version they throw in another package with another cable.

Now the main package its obviously a ata66 looking cable, it has the thin wires (more than 40) and no hole in the cable.

The little packet im assuming is for the raid motherboard since its seperate, anyways its identical to the ata66 looking cable except it has a little hole through the cable on one of the wires.

My question is I have ata33 and standard atapi devices, are these cable backwards compatible? I didn't want to try and mess anything up.

thanks,
Brad
 
Yes, you can use the ATA66 cable on your regular drives. The ATA66 cable has extra ground wires that ATA66 needs. It will not hurt to use on slower drives.
 
is there a difference in the cable that has the hole in it, and the one that doesn't? I have seen these holes before on mac g4's im guessing they are maybe ata100 cables? are these also backwards compat?
 
They are suppose to have the holes in there, something about 1 pin has to be shorted out or something similar to this, I just read about it.
Had the same question, thought my cable was bad, it's normal though.
 
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