Timothy Daniels wrote:

> Yeah, the circuitry is more tolerant of non-standard cabling
> than the specs imply. Also, cirtuitry might be correcting for
> an increased error rate that you're not aware of. It might
> even be reducing the transfer rate to compensate. That
> said, I use "round" cables in my PC, and I love 'em.

See my reply to Alceryes. The only way increased error rate might be
incurred, is leaving a "stub" of a cable unconnected with only one drive
at the middle connector. This could pick up EMF which might interfere
with data transfer.

The main advantage of SATA is to get rid of all this nonsense! ;-)
The cables are much smaller than even round cables! Don't expect faster
performance until the drive "innards" catch up to the serial interface!

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Virg Wall