mac os x forever Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Does any body know of any reason why I cant/shouldn’t use a 24” (80 pin) IDE cable in my iMac G3 SL? I’m trying to use the ide bus in my iMac with both an internal hard disk and an internal PC combo drive on the same ribbon cable. The system bus is ATA 33 so I think I should be fine using up to 24” (18" is standard) on and 80-pin cable. The combo drive is going to be outside the iMac case so that’s why I need the extra length. Also both drives are going to be powered using the one Molex connector that’s supposed to only power the internal hard disk, so far its working ok but does any one think it might cause problems down the road? Can the one power connector safely power both drives? Also are their going to be any performance hits if the hard disk is on the middle connector instead of the last connector on the end of the cable? (the hard disk is set to master and the CD-RW/DVD is set to slave) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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