HEADS UP: Check your devices' UDMA settings - *TEMPORARY* *WORKAROUND*

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Wed Apr 6 11:36:55 UTC 2011


Basil Chupin wrote:
> In reality it would be a bit difficult to make a mistake because, if
> you look closely, the grey (and therefore the black) connector is
> further away from the blue (or even red, which one of my cables has)
> and so you would be rather forcing things a bit to make "ends meet",
> so to speak in a normal setup :-) . But I guess it would not be
> impossible for some people to install the cable the wrong way 'round
> :-) .

Well, it is certainly difficult if you have two disks connected to the 
cable. However I think I did it wrong many years ago and only now I know 
why it didn't work properly. But I only had one disk connected and 
therefore it wasn't difficult. :)

> No, in my case the cable(s) have and are installed the right way
> 'round.

Good - then it really seems to be a bug.


Nils




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