HR10-250 IDE Cable For 2 Drives

[cncgod]

Well my upgrade is going great, so when my bracket arrived I installed it and much to my surprise the TiVO's IDE cable jack has an extra pin where every single cable I have (hundreds of them) has a little block in the pin socket at that spot except the old cables with less wires on them which wont work for the newer hard drives. I would like to get this up and running so is there a particular cable type that has every pin socket open that I can buy at say compusa or best buy? I don't want to wait and order one online if I can avoid it.

Its sad that I had 0 problems installing the linux stuff includeing a rev2 USB200M and get defeated by an IDE cable so I thank anyone who can help for their time.

[Sk33t3r]

I dug through my box of cables and found some with that pin blocked and some with it open, now its up and running.

[whitepelican]

Well my upgrade is going great, so when my bracket arrived I installed it and much to my surprise the TiVO's IDE cable jack has an extra pin where every single cable I have (hundreds of them) has a little block in the pin socket at that spot except the old cables with less wires on them which wont work for the newer hard drives. I would like to get this up and running so is there a particular cable type that has every pin socket open that I can buy at say compusa or best buy? I don't want to wait and order one online if I can avoid it.

Its sad that I had 0 problems installing the linux stuff includeing a rev2 USB200M and get defeated by an IDE cable so I thank anyone who can help for their time.

I just snapped that pin off on a couple of my non-HD DirecTivos. Seems to work just fine without it. I haven't been brave enough to do the same on my HR10-250, so let me know if you try it.

[ttodd1]

On some of those types of cables you can remove the "plug" so that it is open.

[Sk33t3r]

If you cant remove it, just use a pick to punch a hole in it.