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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:20:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        imp@rover.village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Supermicro P6SNE manuals?
Message-ID:  <199707211450.AAA23903@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <E0wqJiz-0001N8-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jul 21, 97 08:46:09 am"

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Warner Losh stands accused of saying:
> In message <199707211221.HAA17629@sparcmill.grauel.com> Richard J Kuhns writes:
> : Sorry, I'm not sure.  Can you suggest an easy/safe way to find out?  I
> : really don't want to take my machine apart again, but it would be worth it
> : to find out.  Pin 1 was labelled and pin 10 was missing, but that doesn't
> : really help anything :(
> 
> The safest way is to get a manual for the board :-(...

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!

> Warner

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