Hi Rounded IDE cables are ones where all the 80 wires are arranged in a round bundle rather than flat like a ribbon. The idea being that the surface area of a rounded cable is much less than a flat ribbon cable thus increasing the air flow in your machine. Unfortunately, as I later found out, with all the wires being tightly bundled together there can be cross-talk between the individual wires so you can get signal errors with faster speed drives and ATA-66 or better controllers, thus producing drive access errors. With flat ribbon style IDE cables, each wire is directly next to two others at the most rather than 79 other wires with a rounded arrangement so you don't get the cross-talk between the wires. It is, however, possible to buy shielded rounded cables which don't suffer from this cross-talk. Hope this answers your question. Sean.
Hi,
please excuse my ignorance but what are rounded cables. I used the cable
that came with the Mobo, i.e. those with more wires than back in the day
when I used a 486.
I tried to replace the canel with another (same type) that did not help,
I'll try to find an old one.
Thanks!
Sven
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