Round cables don't officially meet the specification. In a standard 80-wire EIDE cable, there's a ground wire in between each data wire in part to minimize cross-talk and interference. Doing a ...

could not cause any problem.<BR><BR>But a couple days ago I had read in this forum that round IDE cables could be worse electrically. So... I switched the one I had with a regular IDE 80-pin wire ...

As you can see the two graphs shown below, the Coolermaster cable seems to be slightly better with less peaks Standard Silver Braided Round ATA100 IDE Cable Coolermaster Silver Braided Round ...