@nruddock
Thanks for the link, I'd have to give that a good read later (too much to take in at right now). But tell me what you class as 'higher performance' transfer modes; by that, do you mean SATA or something? My hard-disk is just standard EIDE 100, so would it matter to that sort of transfer?

@Sans2012
Thanks Michael, well actually they're both connected with them (DVD and Hard-Disk). They looked so much better made than the one I ripped, so I replaced IDE1+2 with the 'lesser-ribbed' cables. The machine's only about 18-Month old now, so I don't get the 80-Pin thing (even my older machine was 80-Pin).

Len.

The wait can be horrific, but the outcome can be worse - pumeco 2006