Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:57:58 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supermicro P6SNE manuals? Message-ID: <199707220028.JAA25630@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0wqO9X-00023a-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jul 21, 97 01:29:51 pm"
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > 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... It would? I was actually fairly sure that it was the other way 'round, in that the 12345/678910 layout made me feel ill, and I remember feeling less ill when it worked. I could, of course, be offset by the fact that it worked. 8) > Warner -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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