Reversing an IDE cable?

MadSkillzMan · May 19, 2005

does it work?

as in hooking the master to the mobo, the blue end to the master and so on?

i ask because of this crazy IDE placement in my mac...its so screwy..the only way to play a hard drive in the hard drive cage is either get a custom cable or use one backwards..just trying to save my self some time (and data)

thanks in advance.

winterhavok · May 19, 2005

I don't believe it would work, from what I have experienced it would just show that there was no disk drives.

ghettocomp · May 20, 2005

Unlike the Floppys cable where a portion is cut out and flipped over, the IDE cable is the same pin for pin. I have on occasion with my old PizzaBox computers had to put the cables in that way with no problems. just make sure that all the Pin and sockets are in the same place (some are not keyed) and properly lined up, just like you normally do.

and here is a pic of a cable to prove it:

all the Keys, and Pin 1 stripes are in the same location as well as the keys

MadSkillzMan · May 20, 2005

well so far im not getting any luck. what about jumper settings? CSEL is failing here

ghettocomp · May 20, 2005

You say you are using a Mac, Bummer.. I have had no opportunity to hook drives in those. So answer to that eludes me. I am not really sure of what the ideal jumper settings to use would be.

Xaotic · May 20, 2005

You lose two things at a minimum. Higher UDMA modes and the ability to use cable select. The ground plane for the other 40 conductors is in the plug attached to the planar. This will report the drives as ATA33 and not allow faster modes. The CSEL issue is due to the small cut in one of the conductors between the two HDD connectors. You can try setting the jumpers, but I've never tried reversed orientation.

MadSkillzMan · May 20, 2005

duur CSEL wont work, CABLE SELECT...yea and im totally defeating the cable.

I got th CDROM to work set as master...lets see if i can get that second drive.....haa crap no i cant

well this wasa nice waste of an hour lol.

MadSkillzMan · May 20, 2005

well, it doesnt work. My second drive is just losely laying on top my CDROM. NOT GOOD. So i guess ill either A. buy a cable or B. make a cage of some sort...hmm...me ponders

ghettocomp · May 20, 2005

Whats the fun if you cant make something?

Reversing an IDE cable?

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