Hard drive power cable

I bought a graphite imac and need a hard drive power cable.Will any cable from a slot loading crt imac work?Whats the part #?I do have one for a tray loading imac but its different.Thanks!

Nope I'm wrong. It appears to be the same width as a SCSI cable at the logic end (I've got a SCSI and it plugs in fine) and IDE on the HD end.
You could actually make it work with the IDE part of that tray loaders cable. I have both there and will test if you like. Only the HD would work.
I may have some spares here if you need one.
Richard

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jambraun,
According to this website I found http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_adapters/
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Hi all,
after upgrading from pm-utils-1.3.0-2 to pm-utils-1.4.0-1 I noticed that hard drive on my laptop is stopped and spinned up again too often.
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I don't want to bring up a big discussion here, almost the same problem was discussed by ubuntu community
"Ubuntu's Laptop Killing Bug":
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 … 4&from=rss
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Last edited by basilgor (2010-07-23 12:36:32)

I have
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
in /etc/rc.local to apply this after boot and
#!/bin/sh
# Use a less aggressiv hard disk power management in order to get
# rid of clicking noise which occurs when the drive is parking its heads
. "${PM_FUNCTIONS}"
case "$1" in
thaw|resume)
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
esac
exit $NA
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Last edited by EVRAMP (2010-08-06 10:30:58)

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I apologize if it is bad style to answer to a post marked as [solved] but:
Same problem here!
HDParm-settings are not applied on boot by LMT.
laptop-mode.conf:
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# hdparm -B /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
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And why is this post marked as 'solved'?
edit:
1.) manual set hdparm-settings survive reboot but not suspend!
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Tukaine
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[IMG]http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5706/sawtoothlogicbd2yu.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3729/fw800logicbd4xu.jpg[/IMG]
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