Heya guys, I upgraded my CD rom to a newer DvD Rom on my older Linux box. I used the old cable and had errors when ripping Music off a CD, turned it was cause I was using an older lower bandwidth cable. I changed it out for the better (Finer wire, and around 2x the amount of them in the same width) and problem solved.

But it raises a question I have just been wondering about, does cable quality matter? Like this was a cable I just had in a box, will there be quality differences when riping music with a better cable? or is music not done analog from a CD to the HD like that where slight speed differences would effect it? Im not fully sure how Music CD data is stored, but I know its not just like a digital WAV file sitting on there to be easily copy and pasted off, so wondering if the cable could effect the end outcome at all.

Thanks guys.

a lower bandwidth cable?? what do you mean? assuming you're in an IDE world still, the only real technical difference over time (AFAIK) has been a 40 pine cable vs an 80 pin insulated cable. the insulation lines don't even guarentee a problem will be solved, or that one even existed before. reading your description again, this would presumably be the change you made.

there is absolutely no chance whatsoever of this affecting the end quality... this is digital data. if there is anything wrong with the bytes coming off the media, then they are fixed at a byte level, long long before that byte is used to recreate data relating to music.

Excellent.

Lemme see if I can explain better, the Flat IDE cable had the same pin amount and width but seemed to have around half the cable lines in it (like many cables found in older machines used for CDroms) Maybe onje aimed at ATA 66 or something. Cause when I replaced the Old CDrom with a drive from a box that used a ATA 66/100/133 cable, it had some issues with CD ripping, always failing file comparisons, etc (but the old cdrom was fine with the old cable). But swapping the cable for the newer ATA 133 cable, all was good.