I assume that we are talking about 40c IDE ribbons, because the 80c cables
are not symmetric in nature.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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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