Isoloader issues (HDD mod + Bios mod)

[nicolas1400]

Well, big news here:

I shortened the IDE cable for just about 5 cm and tried to keep all 40 cables about the same long... and BOOM! got my VA0 board 100% working with ISO Loader!

I'm not exactly sure if the problem was the long extension, because I saw lot of mods with very long IDE cables working fine, so I conclude that the problem is that all 40 IDE lines must have a similar distance from edge to edge. Having some lines longer than others may induce in sync problems I think...

Here a picture of the re-wired version of my mod:
http://imgur.com/tBJEw55

Big thanks to SWAT and specially to rafa_apm (I spent literally weeks trying to find out this, and your answer was extremely helpful)

Nicolas.