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From: frank@ut-emx (Frank Abernathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE drives: are the interfaces all the same?
Summary: two cables=ST506, one 50pin=SCSI
Message-ID: <37172@ut-emx>
Date: 13 Sep 90 22:36:57 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.133535.23517@noao.edu> <1452@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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In article <1452@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>, grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes:
> In article <1990Sep13.133535.23517@noao.edu> grandi@noao.edu (Steve Grandi  CCS) writes:
> >The ribbon cables are not even the same width!  Is the IDE interface
   .....stuff deleted

> 40 pins = IDE interface
> 34 pins = ST506 control cable (NOT IDE, or a subset thereof)
  
  To not confuse the issue.......(maybe)
  20 pins = SECOND part of ST506 cable SET....

  50 pins, same style as the IDE connector is generally SCSI...

later 
frank
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