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02-05-2002, 06:58 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,574
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Attn: 15' foot 80 wire IDE works. Paid 16 buks. -DVD-ROM (Say Yes!)
OK,
I know I know I know.
Waste of money blah blah blah...It won't work. Use firewire.
Since then, I have bought firewire card 3 external ports 1 internal $30 buks, 15 foot 6 pin to 6 pin $18.99.
Just won the intio bid for that ide to firewire adapter card! $31 plus shipping.
OK so? I just got a call yesterday from the guy that works by my in the city, the cable is ready. It's a 80 wire 15 foot IDE.
$16 buks he says, I'm like cool thanks.
Tested it DVD just watched fast and furious on it and my CD is playing in my moded slot load now.  So professionally made 15 foot cable works for 15 buks. WOW cheap, pics of this will be digitally posted as soon as my friend gets over here to witness it!
Anything is possible if you put your mind to it!
Later.
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02-05-2002, 07:31 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Richmond, VA USA
Posts: 217
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Congrats, glad it worked out for yah. Just a luck of the draw thing on whether it will or not I guess.
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02-05-2002, 07:34 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 79
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Can they make rounded 80 wire sheilded 15ft Ide cables?
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02-05-2002, 07:57 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,574
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The guy said that the company did'nt have shrkink wrap that long. But he said if Im puttin it in my car just use some black electrical tape and fold it over and tape it.
I don't think it has anything to do with luck.
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02-05-2002, 09:14 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Montana
Posts: 116
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thats cool, i would've tried that but i am not using a cd/dvd drive
Tom
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02-05-2002, 09:45 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Richmond, VA USA
Posts: 217
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Well it may not be luck, but considering not many people have had success with this method, I assume it to be.
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02-05-2002, 11:38 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
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Who before got a professionally made cable though?
Everyone else homemade theirs.
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02-06-2002, 01:30 AM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 305
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Yo LW, what company was this? Could I get their contact info? I'm interested in this cable as well..
Jason
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02-06-2002, 10:54 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
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The company's name I'm not sure of, but is somewhere by the Twin Towers theirs a place called Custom Cables Unlimited or something.
If I knew it was gonna work (which I did ) I would have ordered like 10 of them. And sold them for 20 buks each shipped. Hmm, that give's me a idea.
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02-06-2002, 10:56 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
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I'll get more company info later. I was interning over the summer. My sister
brought the cable home yesterday from out company.
Also is it possible that it works in my room and not in my car due to more interference? Well anywayz running both 15' IDE and 15' firewire cable to make sure. eheh double protection. I mean redundancy.
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02-06-2002, 12:27 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: CAnada,USA
Posts: 48
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If we could get professionaly made round cables it would be great. Running long paralell cables is a no no due to capacitance and inductance.
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02-06-2002, 12:41 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Mellansel, Sweden
Posts: 1,299
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I got a special compaq deskpro cd-rom connector, but it's a regular connection to the mobo, is it possible to create a ide-extension cable?
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02-06-2002, 01:07 PM
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Retired Admin
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
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I'm willing to bet that there's not much difference between a properly made homemade cable and a "professionally" made cable. I mea, there's only two ways to crimp things: right and wrong.
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02-06-2002, 04:54 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,574
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Yes cables are cables if made properly but for 16 dollars I droped my mouth when he said the price.
Even though I can get Cat5 cable for free since I'm a LAN dude. It would cost alot more than 16 buks to make your own cable.
Put it this way, I solder alot and would rather pay $16.
-Don't forget the reason I have this cable is becasue I just chatting with the guy at my software distributer about cars etc.. And I was like you know what I'm doing now, blah blah blah, and I'm looking for a 15' IDE and he said yeah they make them. They make anything, what you want.. And I got it now and it works. People we're criticizing me on this forum about it. Well now my real problem is I listened to the forum people and also bought the Initio Firewire adapter and now I'm stuck with both, I wonder what's better? IDE i suppose since it's old. OLDSKOOL
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02-06-2002, 07:02 PM
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Newbie
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Tempe, AZ
Posts: 50
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"Professionally" making an ide connector is trivial. Cut 15 feet of raw ribbon cable, crimp a connector at each end using specialized crimping tool, tada.
I suppose I could be missing something, but this should take about 5 minutes.
-j3
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