[lug] low profile, long IDE cables?

[Alan Robertson]

D. Stimits wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone knows of a place to purchase longer than normal 
> IDE cables, which are also low profile? The box I have to work with has 
> small metal slots for the cable to route through. In the past the cables 
> I've found locally which are long enough were either too high profile to 
> get through the slots, or else were downright buggy. This is parallel 
> IDE on UDMA66 (yeah I know, ancient). The brands sold in the chain 
> stores like CompUSA were all failures.


How long do you want the cables to be?  24"?

I think 18" is the normal length.

PC Club (Broomfield) shows some "limited availability" 24" cables:
http://www.pcclub.com/product_list.cfm?cat=Cables&subcat1=SCSI%20%2F%20IDE%20%2F%20Floppy&subcat2=IDE%20drive%20cables

Microcenter (near tech center) shows some 18", 24" and 36" round cables.
http://www.microcenter.com/search_results_e.phtml?coordinate_group=A4J

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