[NBLUG/talk] Re: Installfest - Sat. 3/17

[Eric T. Landerville]

If the cable is not keyed (has a tab on the connector), then there
should, should, be a triangle pointing at pin 1.  On the CD drive there
should be a picture or someway of denoting pin 1.  The one I am looking
at has a picture on paper and one engraved into the CD-ROM case.  Make
sure that the two match up and you got it.

Uh... this is an (E)IDE cable I'm talking about.

Eric

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:54 -0700, William Tracy wrote:

> Yes, I know I'm replying to the list. I have a reason. :-)
> 
> > Anybody would like to have a mac ppc--Performa
> > 6400/200 to experiment upon?
> 
> I won't be back in town for another couple weeks, but I have a couple
> old PCs I might trade for it. About 90MHz, 1Gb hard drives. One has a
> pirated Win98 install (!) the other has a Mandrake install that will
> need to be bulldozed (way too slow--launch KDE, click the menu icon,
> and wait two seconds for the menu to pop up). Both have NICs
> installed. I can probably find keyboards and mice for them, but you're
> probably going to be on your own for monitors.
> 
> The reason I'm posting to the list: I slapped a CD-ROM drive into one,
> and now it won't boot. I think I plugged a ribbon cable in backwards.
> Is there anyone around who can look at a ribbon cable and tell if its
> plugged in backwards or not? :-) I'm hoping that I haven't actually
> fried anything.
> 
> William
> 
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