Author: A Green (202-161-9-190.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: 04-23-2006 12:25
The cable was the fault, not the drive. The old Seagate drive still works, even with the old cable.
I tried the new 80Gb to see if it would work. I was curious. It is intended for use in my PC notebook as a second hard drive.
Either the cable's electrical characteristics were inadequate for modern drives (poor quality cores or connectors) or it has suffered some damage that only caused trouble with high throughput drives.