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Hello. I have different PATA cables here. This article only mentions the 40-pin type, and I have some of them, probably obtained on old HDDs. But all PATA CD drives I have here only have 39-pins on the rear connector, so their cables ommit the 20th pin on both ends. That is, you cannot connect this kind of cable on devices with 40-pins.
Shouldn't this be mentioned on the article also? Or there is another article for this variant of cable/pin-out? Appears to be widespread and relevant.--MisterSanderson (talk) 15:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello. It does appears that this article doesn't covers correctly the floppy disk drive cables and connectors... All 3½" drives and cables I have here don't use the 40-pin standard; instead the cables are 34-pins wide. The pinout of the rear connectors on the drives have big differences in matter of pin layout...--MisterSanderson (talk) 16:49, 24 January 2019 (UTC)