Yet another IDE cable question.
When I was examining some of my cables I noticed that some of them have what looks like the 21st pin hole sealed off. I examined my hard drives and I also noticed that they don't have the 21st pin either. Meaning that they actually only have 39 pins. I had never noticed this before, but I was trying some of my different cables in the Tivo and some of them didn't go into the IDE mobo connector. Of course some of the cables didn't plug in because they only had 39 holes not 40.
What's going on here? I thought all IDE connectors were supposed to be 40 pins, yet it turns out my hard drives are only actually 39 pins.
This is an ebay picture of what I'm talking about
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...705546332&rd=1
You can see what I'm talking about by looking at the 3rd picture on the page. Look at the grey connector and you will notice that the 21st slot is sealed off.
I can also take better close up pictures with my digital camera and email them for more clarity. I would post them here but I don't know how