Connecting a SB live 5.1 to a Live Drive II

Can I use an IDE cable to connect these?

Should I use 40 or 80 wire cable?

Thanks for your help.


Bye for now.

Clive.

 

I've never really examined the Creative cable to see how it differs
but I did try replacing mine with a rounded IDE cable and it didn't
work so I suspect they're not the same.

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A standard IDE HDD cable will fit and works just fine, but *ensure* you
fit it the right way round on *both ends* or you **will** destroy either
the card or the Livedrive.

I use a standard IDE cable for mine, but for no better reason than it
matches the colour other cables in the case

Lee

 

Erm... which one? A floppy cable and IDE cable are different things.


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I do not know if an 80 condcutor cable will work, there are differences
from a 40 conductor cable;
pin #34 is grounded at the mobo end and pin #28 is connected differently
at each socket.

If you have the pinout for the Livedrive (ICBA to look it up), you may
want to see if either of these pins do anything important...

Lee

 

OK thanks for the Info Lee.


Bye for now.

Clive.