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
>
>
Mingo... how _old_ are you? I am 51, and the motherboards are getting
smaller and smaller, and are getting buried under more and more stuff.
Damned If I can read those tiny numbers when they are obscured by disks,
floppies, CDroms, power cables, floppy cables, not to mention the fact
that as they reduce the MB size they also reduce the fonts used to mark
the connectors. :)
At the present rate, by 2010 motherboards will be the size of a postage
stamp and require a tunneling electron microscope to find that marking
for pin #1. :)
Of course, I bet you also have _no_ problems setting those cute little
SCSI jumpers to enable/disable termination, set the ID, and so forth,
right? :)
I've learned more curse words setting those than I have working with the
cables...
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