Hard drive cable question -

[Mike McCarty]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> 
> 
>  >>> snip
> 
>>> It's left as an exercise for the reader to dissect a cable and settle 
>>> the crossover/straight-through/termination questions. My eyes are too 
>>> old for that kind of crap -- especially at this hour.
>>
>>
>>
>> All one really needs to do is read the spec.
> 
> 
> Mike:
> Having started in the pre-CP/M era, I've always been skeptical about how 
> faithful manufacturers are in honoring specifications. (I've got a box 
> full of old RS232 cables and adapters. No two of them are identical.)
> -- cmg

Well, Recommended Standard 232 was one of those which had
much more in it than most people needed, so a lot of the
pins got hijacked. It was the Standard people loved to
violate. A disc drive interface is (1) less generally
useful and (2) less amenable to hijacking for other
purposes.

Mike
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