it is getting worse. I just bought a batch of 30 IDE cables and they
were not even marked. :) the usual red stripe was nowhere to be
found.
Needless to say, when a student tried to use one in putting a machine
together, it didn't function on the first try.
Be nice if there was a _real_ standard for this. Some vendors block one
hole in the cable and remove the corresponding pin so the cable can't
be reversed. Others use the key trick. It is all painful if you have
> 100 machine sitting around like I do here.
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> > I bought a cheap (Mitsumi?) drive for about $15, and it worked when I reversed
> the
> > floppy cable.
>
> I've noticed this lately and it is a bit irritating since a majority of the
> floppy drives used to follow the hard drive's "rule" of pin 1 being next to
> the power connector.. but lately floppy drives have been switching back and
> forth without a hint (except sometimes the 'key' on the cable connector).
>
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