[lug] low profile, long IDE cables?

[D. Stimits]

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.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net