S-TDM cable

fidox · Post by **fidox** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:33 am

Hi there !

I want to know if this S-TDM cable is special cable from Creamware or it is just ordinary computer cable.
I have 2 Luna II, but no cable there,
what can i use?
just those from Creamware or can I solve this in other way ?

thanks

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:48 am

nothing special - 15 year old floppy drives used the same type of connector.

The plugs and ribbon cable are regular stuff from any electronics supplier and rather easy to DIY with the help of a vice.

Nevertheless it's simply a question of 'style' if a reseller isn't able or doesn't want to provide you with one free of charge since your original investment was quite high.
And it's rather silly to annoy a buyer of a 2nd hand CW card by charging ridiculuously high fees.
The reseller might make a profit of 20 bucks, but only one time, instead using the opportunity to build up a friendly business relation.

cheers, Tom

fidox · Post by **fidox** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 9:52 am

yo,

yea i totally agree with you, you can't tell better

but you really helped me, i was affraid, uf, is this so special cable??? like for 100$$

)

and my provider tells me, hmm, i don't know what's that cable, you must ask somewhere else, heh

ok, nice

thanks again

JGR · Post by **JGR** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 10:09 am

It's called as MFM cable (10 or 18 wire (just forget) flat cable with corresponding sockets on the ends). It's not specially for Creamware card but also for all devices needed 8 or16 bit transfer (correspondig to 10 or 18 wire)It's used by old harddisk drives before IDE stadart had been approved.
Thouse drives are called as MFM harddisk like modern harddisk are called as IDE.
So you can find this cable on the garbage markets. It will cost.. may be nothing. But finding MFM cable is complicated task.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 10:18 am

... and there's another problem: those cables are far toooo long.
To work reliably they have to be as short as possible.
Even the metal quality of the connector seems to have an influence as some complaints about bad connections here tell.
But I still remember those drives

cheers, Tom

aMo · Post by **aMo** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:46 pm

It's as long as it is so you can have one open space inbetween your pci-ports for maximal airflow between the cards.
When you have an open space between cards, it's just long wnough..

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:37 pm

I thought of the old floppy and MFM disk cables - not CW ones...