The correct answer is....80-conductor IDE ribbon cable.
A 34-pin ribbon cable will connect a floppy drive.A 40 (or 80) conductor ribbon cable is for (E)IDE devices.Other ribbon cables may be used (80 conductor for SCSI, and in older systems, MFM and RLL Hard drives).A smaller ribbon cable (10 conductors) may be used for USB Headers.I think that covers most of them.
A ribbon cable is a cable with many wires running parallel to each other and are most commonly used inside computers connecting hard drives, cd drives and floppy drives. Older computers used them as external connections as well.
Older hard drives typically used a flat ribbon cable, known as an "IDE" or "ATA" cable. Modern SATA drives use a thick but narrow cable, usually red in color.
Many newer systems don't have any ribbon cables at all. Ribbon cables were used for IDE drives, SCSI drives, and floppy drives. The number of cables will depend on the number of drives in the system (16 drives per SCSI cable, 2 per IDE cable, and 2 per floppy cable).
The drive interface that uses an 80-conductor ribbon cable is IDE. IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, an interface commonly used to connect hard disks and optical drives to computers.
The 80-conductor cable and the 40-conductor cable.
That would be called Ribbon Cable. It's generally used in connecting hardware, such as: CD Drives, Floppy Disc Drives, and Hard Drives. The best thing to do is search for 'PS3 Ribbon Cable' and then make sure the Ribbon Cable has the correct amount of slots at each connection of the Ribbon Cable.
80 conductor IDE cable; 40 conductor IDE cable
What is the pin number for the ribbon cable?
Under parallel ata, two types of ribbon cable are used. The 80-conductor ide cable has 40 pins and 80 wires Forty wires are used for communication and data, and an additional 40 ground wires reduce crosstalk on the cable. An older 40-conducror cable has 40 wires and 40 pins. the two types of cables are PATA and IDE cables which come in a 80-conductor IDE cable and a 40-conductor cable
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Modern hard drives connect to the hard drive using a SATA cable. Older ones use a larger, slower IDE cable.