[sheflug] [OT] Frying hard disk with wrong cable?

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Just a quicky question: if I have a hard drive that doesn't support UDMA-66
and I plug it into a IDE controller with an 80-wire cable which does
support UDMA-66, am I likely to kill the hard drive?

This is the second time I've had this happen with UDMA-66, the first time
being years ago with an old hard disk (so I assumed the disk just went 
really bad, rather than thinking it could be i/f issues).

Chris...

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