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Need IDE and floppy cable lengths for Antec 660AMG..

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Salvador

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Hello.

I'm helping a friend from out of state put his first pc together. He just bought an Antec Performance Plus PLUS660AMG case and I need the IDE and floppy cable lenghts for this case. Just to let you know, the case is 17" tall, has 3 full size drive bays and 2 3.5" bays and he plans on going with the Asus A7N8X mobo.

Here's how he's going to have it laid out..

1 hard drive in the internal removable hard drive location (obviously).
1 IDE Zip drive in one of the 3.5" openings
1 floppy drive in the other 3.5" opening
1 dvd rom drive in the top 5.25" opening
1 cd burner in the middle 5.25" opening
Nothing in the bottom 5.25" opening

No RAID or ATA controller card, so he's going to be utilizing both IDE channels with dual cables.

I need to know what length floppy IDE cable to get. What lenght dual IDE cables to get for the two optical drives and the zip and hard drive. My guess is to put the hard drive on as a master on the primary and then put the IDE ZIP drive on as a slave on the same channel. Then, he would need another dual IDE cable for the two optical drives that are in the top two full size 5.25" drive bays.

I don't have this case, so I don't know what to tell him. If anyone has a similar set up, please let me know what size cables you used.

TIA.

Sal
 
It will depend also upon where the motherboard's IDE headers are located. What board is he going to be using, do you know yet?

I wouldn't be putting my hard drive on the same cable as a PIO-2 Zip drive, ewww! 🙁
 
Thanks for the reply.

It will depend also upon where the motherboard's IDE headers are located. What board is he going to be using, do you know yet?
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I'm helping a friend from out of state put his first pc together. He just bought an Antec Performance Plus PLUS660AMG case and I need the IDE and floppy cable lenghts for this case. Just to let you know, the case is 17" tall, has 3 full size drive bays and 2 3.5" bays and he plans on going with the Asus A7N8X mobo.
I wouldn't be putting my hard drive on the same cable as a PIO-2 Zip drive, ewww!
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Any other suggestions? He's got 2 optical drives right next to each other and 1 dual IDE cable could handle those drives and then he has his hard drive and ZIP drive in about the same proximity in the case. I would rather not have him put any other drives on the same IDE channel as the hdd, but he only can use 4 IDE devices on the onboard IDE.

Thanks again.

Sal
 
Does he need both a Zip drive and a CD burner?

For cooling reasons, I personally prefer to leave a vacant bay between the two optical drives instead of putting them against eachother. But for the A7N8X boards, 18-inch IDE cables should reach the top bay, or you could go with 24-inch if you wanted to have some extra so you can tuck the cables out of the way more. A 12-inch floppy cable will work for the floppy drive. photo of A7N8X-Deluxe
 
There will be a space. The removeable hard drive cage on the Antec case has two spots for drives. He can put the hard drive in the lowest position and then there is a room between the floppy or ZIP drive.

I told him to ace the freaking ZIP drive, but he's going to do what he wants to do. I think he should just leave his ZIP drive in his other computer, but that's up to him. Is there really a problem putting a zip drive on the same channel as the hard drive? It's either that or put one of the optical drives on the same channel. Why would it matter?

12" floppy.. How about the cable for the zip drive and hard drive? I know what you mean on the 18" and 24". The 18" might be stretching it a bit.

Thanks again.

Sal

 
Originally posted by: Salvador
There will be a space. The removeable hard drive cage on the Antec case has two spots for drives. He can put the hard drive in the lowest position and then there is a room between the floppy or ZIP drive.

I told him to ace the freaking ZIP drive, but he's going to do what he wants to do. I think he should just leave his ZIP drive in his other computer, but that's up to him. Is there really a problem putting a zip drive on the same channel as the hard drive? It's either that or put one of the optical drives on the same channel. Why would it matter?

12" floppy.. How about the cable for the zip drive and hard drive? I know what you mean on the 18" and 24". The 18" might be stretching it a bit.

Thanks again.

Sal
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Actually, with the 660AMG, the hard-drive cage has no exposed 3.5" bays suitable for a Zip or floppy, so he could have as many as three hard drives in the fan-coolable HDD cage and still have both the Zip and floppy up above. Mikhailtech has some photos near the bottom of this page showing the caddy arrangement in a different Antec case, the ji-normous SX1240.

I know what you mean, it's between the devil and the deep blue sea... the Zip drive is basically going to hog its IDE cable any time it needs to read or write. Which way is the lesser of two evils, I'm not sure. The cheapest complete alternative I can think of would be to get an add-in PCI controller and run the hard drives using that... like a Promise ATA133 card or similar. That would leave one of the motherboard's IDE channels free for the Zip and the other one for the optical drives.
 
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