4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
4:36 p.m.
At 02:57 PM 4/4/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Amen brother! Get a straight-thru cable and jumper the drive for DS0
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On Mon,
2005-04-04 at 16:21 -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> Now, I'm either doing something wrong or all these drives are dead.
> I am using a floppy cable with a twist in it and a 20-pin data cable.
On Mon,
4 Apr 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
I don't remember ever using a twisted cable
with a hard disk, only with
floppy drive (and then only in the PC world). I think both control /
data cables should just be straight through.
IBM used a twisted cable with their hard disks - in order to avoid having
to explain "Drive Select" jumpers to their [Computerland level] dealers.
The hard drive cable twist is NOT the same twist as for floppies!