Quickest way to spot an 80-wire 40-pin IDE cable?

[SOS]

Hi,

What's the easiest way to tell the difference between an old 40-wire 40-pin IDE cable, and an 80-wire 40-pin IDE cable?

Hoe do you spot the 80-wire 40-pin cables is basically whar I want to know.

Thanks

SOS

 

[office boy]

Much finer wires...
almost smooth

 

[Jhhnn]

Yep, finer textured, and thinner, too.

 

[FaultCode]

Make like rainman and count them real quick.

 

[obenton]

Connector color - blue as I recall.

 

[Toro 45]

Yes, the ones I've come across have a blue connector on them.
Toro🙂

 

[Pretender]

For ATA66 wires (I dunno if it's for all 80-wires), they have 1 blue, one grey, one black connector (I don't remember in what order, and I'm too lazy to peek my head into my computer).

 

[HD2GO]

Count it ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ...... 35 36 37 38 .... 76 77 78 79 80!!

 

[Pretender]

Or for those of us who aren't colorblind, just look at the colors of the connectors.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

Blue connector goes to the IDE controller connector on the mobo, I think the gray is for Master, and the black for Slave.

 

[xtreme2k]

a 80-pin cable head have 1 pin hole MISSING at the middle of the connecter

 

[DaddyG]

Rambler, black, the last connector is for Master and grey is for slave.