[rescue] The fat lady. . .

[Brian Hechinger]

> I hate drive cables.  Luckily I've never had permenant damage result from 
> getting one backwards.  I did see a machine where the guy plugged his hard 
> drive power cable in backwards.  That drive was finished.

what is so terribly hard about keying cables?  most SCSI cables are keyed
(although not all of them) so why can't IDE cables be keyed?  they can only
go in one way if they are keyed, you can be a drooling moron and STILL not
screw it up.

this is the one thing i never understood about cables.

blah

-brian