[lug] low profile, long IDE cables?

[Jeffrey Siegal]

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.