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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard drive / controller problems
Message-ID: <248@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 88 22:41:08 GMT
References: <222@psuhcx.psu.edu> <16800327@clio> <230@psuhcx.psu.edu> <4452@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <1393@ddsw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1393@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
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|Note that floppy cables w/twists, while very similar in appearance, twist a
|different number of wires.  DO NOT USE a twisted floppy cable for a HD --
|all kinds of bad things can happen, although all you usually end up with is
|a drive that doesn't work.
|

Actually, I think this may be what happened to me.  From a quick count,
it looks like 10-16 are the lines that are twisted.  Is this a floppy
cable?  If so, that would definitely explain my problems, no? :-)

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