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IDE cabling: Standard versus Enclosure
#1
Should I be able to take the cabling from an internal hard drive kit and use it in a FW enclosure?

I'm referring to cables with the three connectors: blue (board?), and black and grey (master/slave?).

The cable in the enclosure just has two connectors.

Thanks from both of us!
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#2
Yes, but most enclosures will only "see" one drive on the cable - the one jumpered as Master - regardless of the number of connectors.
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#3
I haven't done it, but I thought that any Oxford bridge chipset would support master/slave drives (2 at the same time), given the appropriate cable and power supply.
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#4
I thought that any Oxford bridge chipset would support master/slave drives (2 at the same time), given the appropriate cable and power supply.

I have an Oxford bridgeboard that will not. I bought it from FW Depot years back to convert a 2-bay SCSI case to FW. Not only did it fail to see more than one drive, it also failed to see any hard drive I tried to hook up. It did see CD burners, but that wasn't what I bought it for.

The people at FW Depot didn't know why it wasn't working with HDs. I should have insisted on returning it for a refund, but never got around to it.
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