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Please help
I want to use some shorter cables to connect my drives I currently have 12" of spare cable floating round the case making it look very untidy (on 1 drive)
I have read that you can just cut the unwanted connector and cable off and this will work fine (leaving two connectors and a short cable)
Has anyone done this with a round P-ATA cable?
Does it matter which 2 connectors you leave? (I would like to use the 2 closest to each other but that would normally be the slave and master connectors)(I think the master acts as a terminator so I don't think it will matter)
Apart from ensuring none of the cables can short to each other when done is there anything else I need to be carefull off if I do this?
Alternatively does anyone know somewhere I can buy some short single device cables in the UK?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may offer
Regards
AndyWierd
I want to use some shorter cables to connect my drives I currently have 12" of spare cable floating round the case making it look very untidy (on 1 drive)
I have read that you can just cut the unwanted connector and cable off and this will work fine (leaving two connectors and a short cable)
Has anyone done this with a round P-ATA cable?
Does it matter which 2 connectors you leave? (I would like to use the 2 closest to each other but that would normally be the slave and master connectors)(I think the master acts as a terminator so I don't think it will matter)
Apart from ensuring none of the cables can short to each other when done is there anything else I need to be carefull off if I do this?
Alternatively does anyone know somewhere I can buy some short single device cables in the UK?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may offer
Regards
AndyWierd