I was just wondering what the difference is between a regular hard drive IDE cable and a "80 conductor cable", as my BIOS calls it.

if I look at them closely, the conductor cables have more wires, although they the same ammount of connectors.. so what is the difference? my hard drives work when connected to either one.

also I only have two of them but my KG7-Raid has a total of four controlles so I'm short two.. I used normal IDE cables for my future raid array... will that mess up my hard drives in the long run?

somone please educate me


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