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- From: bcarter@awinc.com (Bob Carter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dell yellow dotless again
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 03:11:34 GMT
- Organization: A & W Internet Inc.
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- Graham Chiu <gchiu@compkarori.co.nz> wrote:
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- > I read before about this yellow dot business, but never paid any
- > attention to it. Now I find myself asking the same question - as
- > there is no yellow dot to orient the connector to the drive, should
- > the pcb with the chip on it face upwards or downwards, and can the
- [...]
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- The component side with the resistor on it goes up. My drive cabel was the
- same as yours - no dot on the plug - so I called the distributor I bought it
- from and he gave me the info.
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- BTW - don't put your drive on top of your computer or too near the monitor
- as it's so sensitive to RF interference that it won't work properly. I put
- mine beside my A3000 and it works fine in that position.
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- | Bob Carter |
- | bcarter@awinc.com |
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