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Neil Anderton (neila@mel.dah.csiro.au) wrote:

> Try reversing the leads. The red stripe on the cable always goes to pin 1 
> on the FDD.

I wish someone would tell that to the manufacturers of the cheap $25 IO cards.
They day I get a cable with --all_ connectors crimped on the right way I'm
going to crack open a bottle of bubbly. ;-)

The little arrow head on the connector indicates pin 1. This should also be
connected to the wire with the red stripe. The keyway on 5.25" drives helps
to get it right, however a lot of the 34 pin IDE connectors don't have a
locating tab and a lot of the 3.5" drives will accept the connector in both
ways. Somtimes the 34 pin IDE connector has 2 dovetail cutouts which I
think is usually on the same side as the locating tab should have been.

I prefer to find the 1 marked on the PCB and match that to the red stripe.

P.S. The connectors before the twist in the cable is A: and the ones after
are drive B:.
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