non-ATA66 cable?

[Juha Saarinen]

> Assuming you have the right cable, make sure you have it connected
> correctly.  I had a problem like this once, and it turned out that I
> had put the cable on backwards.  I had connected the end of the cable
> meant for the motherboard to the device (a disk, iirc), and visa-versa.
>
> I switched the cable around, and then it worked fine.  Of course, I
> didn't discover this until after a few years, while I was in the
> process of replacing that PC!

!

That made me go and check my machines here...

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Juha