2 Feb
2004
2 Feb
'04
23:26
The Monday 2004-02-02 at 08:55 -0000, Sean Akers wrote:
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.
On ATA100 cables those two are grounded; ie, every signal cable has a ground cable on each side, so there is very little crosstalk. If that ribbon cable is converted to a tube, all that is lost.
It is, however, possible to buy shielded rounded cables which don't suffer from this cross-talk.
I wonder... :-? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson