The 40 pin ATA connector pinout and cable pinout is shown above. The 80 pin cable pinout is about the same as above, except that all the signal names listed above are now odd pins in the cable; how ever it's still a 40 pin connector so the table is true for the connector but not the 80 pin cable. The 80-pin cable has all the even cable wires connected to ground. So each pin listed above after pin 1 moves down one or more pin numbers. Pin 2 [Ground] moves to pin 3, Pin 3 has to move to pin 5, Pin 4 has to move to pin 7, pin 5 has to move to pin 9, and so on; using only odd number pins - as all even conductors in the cable are used for ground. At the end of the list pin 40 [ground] is pin 79, while pin 80 is also ground [even pin]. The only exception is pin 34 [PDIAG] which is connected to ground in the cable. Which makes both pin 67 and 68 ground pins in the cable. True for the 80-pin cable, remember the connector remains unchanged, only the cable pin-out changes.