Any advantage / disadvantage with using a 40pin/80wire IDE cable over a 40/40 IDE cable (ie with the extra 40 wire shielding)? My question is regarding two optical drives on the secondary IDE channel (DVDrom and CDRW).

Yes, I do use and 40/80 with the two hdd's as per manufacturers specs.

Thankyou, r

Sorry - duplicate post. The first one said it was unsuccessful and encountered an error. Guess webmaster has some bugs to work out.

r

"namniar" wrote:

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> Any advantage / disadvantage with using a 40pin/80wire IDE cable over a 40/40 IDE cable (ie with the extra 40 wire shielding)? My question is regarding two optical drives on the secondary IDE channel (DVDrom and CDRW).
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> Yes, I do use and 40/80 with the two hdd's as per manufacturers specs.
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> Thankyou, r
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