Re: Problems? Re: Abit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard

[mingo]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:

> 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.

the cable itself is symmetric, so the only thing to take care of is to not
twist the cable (or twist it an even number of times ;). Pin #1 is almost
always marked on the motherboard.

-- mingo

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