Daniel Potts (danielp@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:57:30 +1000 (EST)
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 mgraffam@idsi.net wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
>
> > By the way, in case Brian is reading this post, I actually DID plug
> > in and boot the Alpha with the IDE drive enabled. It made the
> > most horrendous noise I've ever heard from a computer. It was
> > somewhere between car tires on a gravel road and white noise from
> > an un-tuned TV. It was near 50 dB. I turned the machine off and
> > went back to the external SCSI drive. :)
>
> Sounds to me like to plugged the cable in wrong -- and sent the power
> pins to data lines.. you probably killed the drive with that.
>
> I've never seen a definative statement on how the hell this is supposed
> to work -- how is an IDE drive supposed to be plugged into the UDB MB?
You really just need to align up the missing pin - make sure it is the
same distance from the left of the connectors. Btw, someone I know
managed to plug it in the wrong way, it managed to survive ok.
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