RE: Blew IT

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 27-Sep-2000 Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel spoke something to the effect:
> On  Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Kit Williams said the following magic words,
> 
>> Since hardware is more my style, I'll lend a hand on this one.
>> 
>> You should check the IDE Cable.  If you were installing a hard drive,
>> chances are that you turned it the wrong way on one of the connections
>> causing the machine to short out.  Make sure that "pin 1" is going
>> towards
>> the power and also make sure that your "master, slave" settings are
>> correct.
> 
> AFAIK all of the HDD's I've come across prevent the insertion of the IDE
> cable the wrong way. The IDE cables I have seen too have one of the holes
> blocked off to prevent the wrong way insertion. So could anyone clarify
> wether it is possible to insert it in the wrong way?

That's been true of all drives I've used, including SCSI. But, the mobos
have been a different story. I've inserted those backward a few times. No
damage done, just no workee. Not even the BIOS POST.

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