RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4] Hard Drive IDE Cables

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> jale@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 8:16 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4] Hard Drive IDE Cables
> 
> 
> 
> >Can anyone tell me if there's something special about the IDE Hard 
> >drive cables in a RaQ4? I know they're Ultra ATA/33, but 
> I've got a box 
> >where one of the cables got torn (don't ask) and I am attempting to 
> >find a replacement. All of the cables I have tried will not 
> let me do 
> >an install. For a while I thought it was the box, so I 
> swapped it out 
> >with another (virtually identical) and I have the same 
> problem. Seems 
> >to be a speed issue, 'cause the install times out while 
> installing the 
> >23MB Chilisoft file (I think it's version 3.5.2 on the CD).
> 
> Not familiar with the Raq4 ... did you mean ATA 133 or was 33 
> correct? If 
> 100/133, do you have the high speed IDE cables, 80 leads for 40 pins?
> 
> The only oddity on my Raq3 is the mother board side of the 
> IDE does not 
> have a "missing pin" that is standard for IDE, so I have to cut the 
> "blocker" out cables to be able to use them, but that's a 
> physical thing I 
> have to do to just plug them in.
> 
> Good luck,
> Jale
> 

Oh yeah, Duh. I should've known I could remove the block. Any hints for
doing this before I destroy another cable?

BTW - The RaQ4 manual actually does say Ultra ATA/33.

--
Greg



--