40 or 80 wire for cd-rom?

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PlasmaFire

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Ok, I have an older computer I am rebuilding to install Fedora on. It's an old Tyan Motherboard with a P3-733 Mhz and a gig of ram and a slice of cheese.

My question is this,
Should I use a 40 wire IDE cable to the cd-rom or a newer 80 wire, or does it even matter anymore?

I usually run my systems with 80 wire running to everything, is this ok?

Never really had a problem with it, just a question that has been bugging me for awhile.
 
Doesn't matter. The 80 wire cable is supposed to have a cleaner signal at higher frequencies, but since your not going an iota over 33mhz anyways, the 40 will do just fine as per ata specs.
 
I use an 80 pin cable because, well al my rounded cables are 80 pin.
 
Just to add to the accurate information above, I've run across all of two optical drives capable of using ATA/66 instead of 33. 80 wire IDE cables are much easier to fold into place, so I always use them anyway.
 
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