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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Supermicro P6SNE manuals? 
Cc: rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com, hackers@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:20:34 +0930."
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:29:51 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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In message <199707211450.AAA23903@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes:
: Is this still on the SuperMicro board?  I discovered that they do it
: the "right" way, ie. a crimp D9 on one end of a ribbon cable and a
: crimp IDC10 on the other "just works".  The other pinout is an
: abomination, and as someone who spends my fair share of time pushing
: polygons laying out PCBs, I swear whoever came up with it SHOULD BE
: SHOT!

Yes.  It is on the super micro board.  That would indicate the pins
are numbered 1-2-3-4-5 on the top row and 6-7-8-9-x on the bottom
row.  The signals on the ribbon cable would then be numbered
1-6-2-7-3-8-4-9-5-x.  I'll pick up parts on the way home and try to
make this cable...

Warner