Cable Question

Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 10:56 pm

Im going to get some round blue ata cables for my rig, but I have notices a few say get them with a ground wire? the ones I ordered from the geeks dont seem to have one.. Will I have ouchies?

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:52 pm

I never had issues with non ground wire round cables

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 12:24 am

Ground wire ? Hmmm . . I've never had a ground wire on any of mine.

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 12:40 am

im running scsi and mine are not grounded !
didnt know there were any rounded cables that are grounded

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 12:52 am

here is a grounded cable

Features:
Wrapped with nylon mesh for maximum air flow improvement
40-pin 80-conductor cable, ATA133/100/66/33 compliant for high speed data transfer (A26 IDE cable)
Highly flexible 26" round cable (16" + 10") with two device connections, one motherboard connector.
Shielded with aluminum foil and braided silver mesh with ground, for maximum shielding

Linky

xsiled · Post by **xsiled** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 1:40 am

but the trick is, you have to solder that ground to another wire then place it in your mouth at all times or the computer will explode.

blade · Post by **blade** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 6:18 am

The one I checked out didn't offer that much better performance.
http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... adid=21462

Though it might be better using a shorter 18" one.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 7:22 am

Can't see what the purpose of the gound wire is. The ribbon is already grounded thoroughly through the connector.

It's possible it has a shield, but I doubt it, that would be an expensive cable.

Either way, it's not necessary.

Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:05 am

Thanks for the replies, I searched for info on it, but never came up either, Im sure that there will be no problem.