[lug] low profile, long IDE cables?

[Lee Woodworth]

D. Stimits wrote:
> Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 1, 2005, at 17:42 , 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> You might consider an IDE to SATA adapter.  Put it near the  
>> motherboard and then route the SATA cable to the drive.
> 
> 
> Hmm. This might be an option but it sounds a bit expensive. Of course it 
> might beat not using that IDE cdrom drive at all.

JB Saunders had some IDE-SATA converters at one time. Don't remember
the price, around $50 I think.

If you don't need to boot from the CD, you could try converting it to
an external drive using a USB case, about $50 @ compusa.