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As a side note, the IDE pads on the MK2 I'm working with have the most perfectly even application of HARDLY ANY solder.


Yeah, that kind of sloppy assembly seems to be commonplace. Just in the past week I resoldered the USB connector for a D-Link wifi adapter that looked a lot like a faulty empeg header.

And yesterday I fixed my USB_to_IDE/notebook/SATA drive adapter "cable" dongle thingie. It had a 3-pin tab style regulator/transistor inside that was just barely touching the solder pads. After 10 minutes use it would konk out. Duh.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (01/05/2007 01:50)