SOLVED Does a IDE ATA100 cable have pin10 blocked?

[el]

I am rounding cables and I have three different cables

1) 40wires all connectors black-- ATA-33 cables
2)80wires connectors blue,gray, and black all holes on connectors are open--ata-66
3)80wires connectors blue, gray, and black pin 10 is blocked---ata-100

Is this correct? Also can you remove the slave connector in the middle like you can do to the floppy cable?

 

[sfa ok]

Yes, ATA100 cables have pin 10 blocked on the connector. I'm not sure about removing the slave connector, though. I do have some old ATA33 cables without them though, so I don't think that it would hurt.

 

[Goldwing]

The blocked pin 10 is not indicating an ATA100 cable. This conductor is unused and is blocked to prevent installing the cable backwards. I have 40 conductor cables with the pin blocked. The 80 conductor cables are required for either ata66 or ata100 and there is no difference between the ata66 and ata100 cables.

 

[el]

kewl! so can I remove the slave connector in the middle of the cable?

 

[Goldwing]

Yes, I have done it before. (OK, so it fell off while I was routing cables.) But it still worked.