Quote Originally Posted by CeeBee View Post
Only they are not IDE cables
What makes something "an IDE cable" other than the fact that it is being used by an IDE device?

Quote Originally Posted by CeeBee View Post
The IDE connector has 40 pins
Only if you insist IDE must mean nothing but ATA. MicroChannel Architecture IDE used a 72 pin connector.

You're no doubt aware that IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, as distinct from previous discrete drives utilising dedicated controller boards in a peripheral slot. We could legitimately say the error in the original post lies in the assumption that a 50 pin SCSI cable is not for an IDE device. In fact both SCSI and ATAPI implement Integrated Drive Electronics, and it would not be wrong to call something like a JAE 50 cable an IDE cable.