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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.<BR>
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Uh... this is an (E)IDE cable I'm talking about.<BR>
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Eric<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:54 -0700, William Tracy wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yes, I know I'm replying to the list. I have a reason. :-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Anybody would like to have a mac ppc--Performa</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 6400/200 to experiment upon?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I won't be back in town for another couple weeks, but I have a couple</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">old PCs I might trade for it. About 90MHz, 1Gb hard drives. One has a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">pirated Win98 install (!) the other has a Mandrake install that will</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">need to be bulldozed (way too slow--launch KDE, click the menu icon,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and wait two seconds for the menu to pop up). Both have NICs</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">installed. I can probably find keyboards and mice for them, but you're</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">probably going to be on your own for monitors.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The reason I'm posting to the list: I slapped a CD-ROM drive into one,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and now it won't boot. I think I plugged a ribbon cable in backwards.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is there anyone around who can look at a ribbon cable and tell if its</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">plugged in backwards or not? :-) I'm hoping that I haven't actually</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fried anything.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">William</FONT>
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