From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 21 17:28:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22512 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22501 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA25630; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:58:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707220028.JAA25630@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Supermicro P6SNE manuals? In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Jul 21, 97 01:29:51 pm" To: imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:57:58 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[