[rescue] The fat lady. . .

[Amy]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> > 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.


not all are keyed (unfortunately). the unkeyed ones from 6-8 years ago
were my downfall.

--a