Doing a round cable defeats that and places the data cables in close proximity.<BR><BR>Short version: It usually works. Sometimes it works 100% as well as flat cables. Sometimes it doesn't work ...

and I'd like to share its IDE connection with a DVD Drive up top. Needless to say, I can't get the connectors for master to slave to reach on any of the cables I own, round or flat, short or long.

In the box we found one "rounded" 80-Wire UDMA/133 IDE cable, another short 80-Wire IDE cable and a short floppy cable. These smaller cables should help keep internal wire clutter to a minimum.

The simple green adapter has a small chip and i dont understand why this same adapter dont works if you just connect it with a ide cable, but works if you solder short wires. Even in my pcb ...

If you were building or upgrading PCs from around 1990 to 2005, you know the wide, floppy ribbon of an IDE cable well: it made desktop case cable routing a headache. Apple’s WWDC 2025 takes ...