Red IDE controller/red IDE cable

[RambleOn]

My new Gigabyte motherboard has a red colored primary IDE controller, and the cable that comes along with it, has a red plug and a grey plug, so I shall assume that this works the same as the blue/grey setup used for ATA100 drives?

 

[ThaGrandCow]

In what way? You mean that the red plug should go into the ATA100 slot because that cable is rated for it?

 

[RambleOn]

My understanding has been that if your drive supports ATA 66/100, then you're supposed to use an IDE cable with a blue end, and a grey connector in the middle, and a black one at the end. You plug the blue one into the primary IDE controller (which is usually a blue socket on ATA/66/100 motherboards. Then you connect the black cable to the hard drive and preferably set it to cable select, then you use the grey connector for a slave drive, if you have one. I'm making sure the same is true in my case, except the connectors are red instead of blue.

 

[FoBoT]

i think they are just using pretty colors to make it look neeto