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Hello Wayne - 

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WC>>> If it tests OK I'll slap it in the H.P. in the next
WC>>> couple of weeks. It worked in a previous machine. 

->> I hope it works for you. 

WC> Nope, drawer won't respond. Come to think of it that's how
WC> I wiped out the NEC by plugging the connector in offset two
WC> pins on the end outside :-( 

WC> Power through the wrong junctions must have fried the
WC> semiconductors. 

WC> Goes with getting old eyesight. 

I would like to have a chance to hit whoever is responsible for
the _lack_ of goof-proofing of IDE cables on the head with a
rolled up newspaper at least 100 times or until they were
unconscious. I've plugged cables in off by two myself and I
can't see a good reason they didn't put an offset slot in the
connector to let you know when you 'miss' all those little pins
(reaching into a place where you can't even _see_ the pins
etc.). 

I suppose a bunch of short cable extensions to allow me to do
this in the light of day where I can see what I'm doing might
help but no one does that either. :-\ 

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>      o/      Charles.Angelich      \o       ,
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