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snow · 03-09-2002, 06:01 PM

Hey,

I love playing with junk hardware too, but sometimes in my haste I end up getting the cables backwards sometimes and it's no fun 2nd guessing yourself. My suggestion would be to forget the twist stuff (which I hate) and make sure you've got pin1 (red line on the cable) matched with pin1 on the board and on the drive (toward the power cable on the drive). Never hurts to try the obvious-- I ALWAYS forget to and end up doing all this unnecessary troubleshooting.

03-09-2002, 06:01 PM	#2
snow Member (7 bit) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 110	cables Hey, I love playing with junk hardware too, but sometimes in my haste I end up getting the cables backwards sometimes and it's no fun 2nd guessing yourself. My suggestion would be to forget the twist stuff (which I hate) and make sure you've got pin1 (red line on the cable) matched with pin1 on the board and on the drive (toward the power cable on the drive). Never hurts to try the obvious-- I ALWAYS forget to and end up doing all this unnecessary troubleshooting.