What is the impedance of SATA cable? Cat 5 ethernet cable at about 100 ohms was quite close to the 93 ohm cable used for SDI. I have run 50 foot lengths of CAT 5 cable with SDI with no problems.
I am very interested to hear about how to prepare the ends of the SATA cable to work with the Berg headers on the U/KDA50 and on the SDI drives. Are the pins on SATA cables on 0.1" centers? It would be great if SATA cables can be used with minimal additional effort.
I am away on business at the moment, and not near my notebooks. I was able to figure the pinouts from the UDA50 and RA80 print sets. Also, you might be able to figure out enough by looking at the photos I posted in the album about home made SDI cables.
Lou