I find it bizarre and inexplicable that somebody can't tell that digital signals travelling through an 80 wire cable might be just a wee tad more complicated and subject to one way effects than an analog level travelling through a single wire. In the 80 wire cable, different wires do different things - I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the wires carry signals going one way and some carry signals going the other, and/or some carry commands and status and some carry data.
I'll tell you I was surprised as hell when, in spite of the fact that 40 of the wires aren't even connected to the connector and are only there for grounding and cross talk disappation, a break in one of the unconnected wires once caused me some bizarre and inexplicable data corruption, and one of the drive manufacturer's disk test programs was able to diagnose that as the cause of the problem.
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Date: 2005-12-23 08:20 pm (UTC)I'll tell you I was surprised as hell when, in spite of the fact that 40 of the wires aren't even connected to the connector and are only there for grounding and cross talk disappation, a break in one of the unconnected wires once caused me some bizarre and inexplicable data corruption, and one of the drive manufacturer's disk test programs was able to diagnose that as the cause of the problem.