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

[Troy Arnold]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:12:19AM -0700, Eric T. Landerville wrote:
> 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.

One more tip:  pin one on the drive is almost always the pin closest to the
molex power connector.  I can remember only one floppy drive and one
(pre-ide) CDROM  where this was not true.  Also, if your cable has a red
stripe down the side, that's pin one on the cable.

-t