Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!ihnp4!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My Two Cents ... Message-ID: <3923@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 17:41:46 GMT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.3923 References: <8805271410.AA14234@decwrl.dec.com> <3894@cbmvax.UUCP> <315@boing.UUCP> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 18 In article <315@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes: >In article <3894@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >>a small correction to make. The power connectors for the floppies can't >>be plugged in backwards, I just checked to make sure. >Really? I tried it also and was easily successful in extracting a puff of >smoke from that disk drive. Turns out that when are looking down from >the top you don't notice that the keying for the power connector on these >floppys is completely inadequate. There is no additional force necessary >to push the power connector in. Hmmm, with my drives it simply can't be done (except by EXTREME application of force). The drives are Matsushita, may others are different (the base problem here). It boggles the mind that a drive manufacturer wouldn't key the power connector. You'd think the companies that make drives would try to keep fairly similar specs/physical layout. But that would make life too easy. :-)