[G4] 8X burns VS. 16X burns

[James Pacyga]

Interesting.  Let us know if it works after you get the cable.

jim

On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:48 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:

> Greetings ( + )!( + )
>
> On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2005, at 8:34 PM, James Pacyga wrote:
>
> I wouldn't expect so.  Supposedly any controller ATA-3 and above can 
> use the 80 pin cable, but don't hold me to it.
>
> jim
>
>
> Well, I just bought a 100 pack of 16X DVD's, so I reckon I'll be 
> picking up a cable to make it worth the extra money I spent on the 
> disks.  Thanks for the info.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
> _______________________________________________
> In the ATA/ATAPI-4 standard that introduced the Ultra DMA transfer 
> mode set, a new cable was introduced to replace the old standby: the 
> 80-conductor IDE/ATA cable. The name is important: the new cable has 
> 80 conductors (wires)--it does not have 80 pins on each connector, 
> though, just 40. This means that the new cable is pin-compatible with 
> the old drive. No change has been made to the IDE/ATA connectors, 
> aside from the color-coding issue (see below).
>
> The obvious question, of course, is this: what's the point of adding 
> 40 extra wires to a cable if they aren't connected to anything? :^) 
> Well for starters, the 40 wires are connected to something, just not 
> their own pins on the interface connectors. The extra 40 wires don't 
> carry new information, they are just used to separate the "real" 40 
> signal wires, to reduce interference and other signaling problems 
> associated with higher-speed transfers. So the 40 extra conductors are 
> connected to ground, interspersed between the original 40 conductors 
> of the old cable. Any stray signals that would "cross-talk" between 
> adjacent wires on the 40-conductor cable are "absorbed" by these extra 
> ground wires, improving signal integrity. The extra ground wires can 
> be either all of the even-numbered wires, or all of the odd-numbered 
> wires in the cable.
>
>
> Best Regards, /\*_*/\
>
> Harry (*^_^*)
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