29 Apr
2015
29 Apr
'15
3:36 p.m.
From: Josh Dersch
it never occurred to me to just try flipping it around
since usually
that's a pretty good way to let the magic smoke out of things.
Exactly. Except for cases where I _know_ the connector was designed to be
able to withstand being plugged in backwards (e.g. IDE), I would _never_ try
reversing a cable 'on spec'. The chances are just too big one will kill
something.
(Amusing factoid: QBUS cards have the same thing, they are designed so that
you can plug them in backwards, and not kill things. I am somewhat ashamed to
admit that one one occasion, I actually did this! Luckily the engineer who
did the QBUS saved my behind.)
From: Johnny Billquist
On 2015-04-27 00:50, Mike Ross wrote:
> One does not casually reverse the installation of
cables just to see
> if maybe it will work!
Actually.... I often have done so, just because of
this.
And how many times have you melted something down, doing that? :-)
Noel