Can IDE cable's end connector be left idle ( w-o affecting data transfer ) ?

  • Thread starter Thread starter TE Cheah
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TE Chea said:
I have old ( made in '90 - '93 ) floppy cables with 5 connectors.


In this setup ( using VIA kt266a's south bridge & 80 wire cable,
all drives using cable select ), my Seagate ata33 hdd ( @ the end
connector ) seems to work fine ( can pass Disk Checker 2000 )
with my LG ata33 dvd*drive ( @ the mid-connector ), but * can
not pass BCM diagnostic ( in Win98se, using win98se cd in * )
unless * is @ end connector & hdd is absent ( i.e. no sharing of
this 2ndary channel with a hdd ), but a Toshiba PIO mode 3 cd
drive @ mid-connector does not affect * passing BCM diagnostic.

My experiment today indicates that this web page's warning is real.
Click to expand...

Damn, I would have never gathered that from all the comments made in
that thread spanning more than a full screen.

Oh, and your experiment only confused the issue once again.
 
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