From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 02 1998 - 20:16:54 EDT
>The cable that came with the external floppy on my 560e is annoyingly
>short. Does IBM (or anyone else) sell a longer one?
Too long might be dangerous. There's a fairly short upper limit on
the IDE signal specification, and while the current floppy cable is I think
rather below this limit, it is exposed to things like EM radiation to which a
corresponding desktop cable (being in a Farady cage) is immune.
- David R.
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