Short IDE Cables? Where to Purchase?

I need a short IDE cable. I only want one of about 6 inches, possibly less. I'd prefer rounded, but I'd settle for a flat cable.
Anyone know where to find such a thing? I've exhausted all my resources.
Thanks in advance.
Ean.

:biggthumbsdown:I appoligise, over here in England we use the sane metric system. We don't bring our kids up telling them how many pounds are in a stone!
The reason 90% of websites uses inches is because Americans seems to rely on Imperial mesurments Move on please, catch up with the rest of the world
Anyway, going back to the topic...
Once SATA has been properly instituted and Maxtor have fixed up the problems and a new version of Windows (or Linux) has been made that can properly deal with SATA drives we will no longer need these IDE cables.
SATA cables are brilliant pity about the drives themselves Maxtor

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