Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE problem: linux-2.5.17 | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 16:05:41 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Uz.ytkownik Andre Hedrick napisa?: > > Not true at all. > > > > Many of the OEM's use 40c's to do 66 and 100, just they have to be very > > high quality and about 6" in length. > > > > Please don't confuse people the standard is clear. > The OEM's are just cheap becous they can controll what they > put in to the box and how they layout the cables inside > the box. If someone asks. The 80 lines are half the same > contacts as before and half signal shilding. So indeed > 40 wire cables can turn out to work, but thats subjec to > "quality" assurance on behalf of the OEM's.
And Linux is supposed to run properly on those boxes not on some abstract specification. Never forget that.
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