IDE cables

[everbroken]

I have what seems to be a 40 wire ide cable, running from my motherboard to my two cd-rom drives, and a 80 wire one from motherboard to hard drive.

I only use one cd-rom, and want to make a secondary hard drive setup, can I simply switch these cables?

Never mind, I answered my own question

Thanks!

 

[SNGX1275]

Yes, but if you have a hard drive on a cable it really should be an 80 wire one. CD Drives aren't fast enough to need the 80 wire ones, but ATA100/133 hard drives are.

 

[everbroken]

I noticed HUGE slowdown when transferring data between them lol.

I will be getting a new cable, or just getting my new setup soon and not worrying about this lol.

 

[Tedster]

use an 80 wire IDE cable otherwise your speed in data transfer will slow down significantly.