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>No breaks in mine, too. But I feel the UDMA66 ribbon line unsafe as the
>lines are really thin! Sometimes I can feel worry that it will really break
>somedays.

Go take a look at an wide(ultra) scsi cable. same sort of wiring



Martin Kou || cybermartin <cybermartin@hotmail.com.kill.spammers> wrote in
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> This time read the below lines...
>
> Ted Rutledge <tedrofkenn@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> > I made the suggestion not because I have had personal experience with
> *cable
> > select* but because I had read that to use cable select one had to have
a
> > special cable with breaks in it.
> >
> > I have pondered for a while how an 80 wire cable can be connected to a
40
> > wire connector and have concluded that many of the 'ground' wires in the
> > cable are in fact 'floating'. Seven of the 40 pins are connected to true
> > ground and therefore the adjacent 'ground' wires could be connected to
> > these. This however leaves many 'Ground' wires in the 80 wire cable
which
> > cannot (?) be connected to a true ground.
> >
> > High frequency A/C will induce a current flow in adjacent lines.and so
> when
> > the signal lines are adjacent, as is true for many of the lines in a 40
> wire
> > ribbon,   signals can be corrupted.
> >
> > As each signal line in an 80 wire cable is isolated from it's immediate
> > neighbouring signal line by a 'ground' line (even though this may be
> > floating) maybe this provides the desired isolation without needing to
be
> > connected to a true ground ?.
>
> What a kick-ass suggestion for breaking the big question mark on my head!
I
> was wondering how the other 40 wires(totally 80) are connected to the 40
> pins. They're for EM wave, haha.
>
> >
> > I cannot find any breaks in my three 80 wire cables !
>
> No breaks in mine, too. But I feel the UDMA66 ribbon line unsafe as the
> lines are really thin! Sometimes I can feel worry that it will really
break
> somedays.
>
> >
> > I am not an Electrical Engineer. Perhaps an Electrical Engineer with
> > experience in VHF will read this thread and put me straight !
>
> I am a student.
>
> [snip]
>
> Martin Kou || cybermartin
> cybermartin@hotmail.com
>
>
>