CompuServe Messages

Dan, How can the red strip not be right? Red stripe side to pin 1 on the host adapter and red strip side to pin 1 on the drive. That of course presumes the socket on the host adapter and drive are either bare berg pins…or unkeyed sockets. If someone makes up a key'ed connector and puts the red stripe (or black/blue/whatever) on the wrong side of the connector then the cable maker has a BIG problem. Sure…if they made the same mistake on both ends of the cable…it'll work…but I wouldn't trust the manufacturer. But in any event…key'ed or unkey'ed…as long as the same side of the cable goes to pin 1 (stripped or not) on both ends…it'll work. Out of curiosity…who makes the drives with the key'ed sockets? I've worked with Micropolis, HP, Conner, SeaGate and MiniScribe drives and Adaptek, DPT and Emulex adapters and none of them have key'ed sockets on them. Don