OT: IDE issues

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Phoenician <phoenician at phoenixcolony.com>: 
 
> I was helping a friend build a pc this weekend. He has new parts. 
> During the overall installation we ran into an odd situation, when we 
> plugged in his IDE cable into his motherboard  then into his device(s) 
> he lost power to those devices.  Unplug the IDE, power was restored. 
 
Either there's a short somewhere or you have the cable reversed (much more 
likely).  Red stripe goes nearest pin marked 1 on the motherboard, toward 
power connector on drive. 
 
 - Live from Andover - Tarcanfel East 

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