I saw the post, I just didn't know an answer better than "easy enough to just try it" which is not all that helpful, but I guess at least then you would have known your post posted.
Although part of the cable has special wiring and connectors, once you have a proper cable, it doesn't require anything special to add an extension to the DVI end of it. I'm actually already amazed that a raw system bus going out over an unshielded ribbon cable works at all, but I guess the DVI came enough years after the Model 1 expansion interface debacle that they learned how to do that better. ;) If you got a new cable from Arcade Shopper I probably built it. I haven't tried any long runs or done any reliability testing to find the longest run that not merely appears to work, but is definitely safe from corruption. You don't want data you can't trust, and I don't know, and wouldn't want to rely on, how much fancy error detection and correction is going on at low levels. Like does every block written or read from the disk come along with a checksum? Until I knew that, I would want that bus to be as clean as possible. -- bkw On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 11:04 AM James Zeun <james.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone > > Think I might have messed up messaging the list last night, so I'm sending > my post again. My apologies if it did go through. > > Just a quick question, how long can a DVI link cable be? My new cable > arrived today and while it's longer than what I had, I could still do with > it being 20-30cm longer. I have the DVI sitting at an angle to the left of > me on the desk, with my TV/Monitor flatscreen sitting on top of it. Using > the new cable, it seems the intended way to use the DVI is with the M100 > sat directly in front of it. However that isn't really comfortable nor > practical with my setup, neither do I really want the monitor directly > facing me. I regularly clear the center of my desk for soldering which is > why the monitor sits in the corner out the way. > > I did get a home made cable with my DVI and while it is rather short > (25cm), I'm wondering if I couldn't extending it another 30cm so the M100 > can sit in front of me and the DVI to the side. > > As always any and all input is welcome, I'm probably going to give it a > shot either way. I just thought I'd see if anyone new if there was a limit > before signal loss is to much. > > Cheers > James > -- > My retro tech blog and general ramblings > http://bytemyvdu.wordpress.com/ >
