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You can often get the thing plugged in and *looking* right, but it can still be off-by-one.



I can vouch for this!

Maybe the look of the newer drives is different, but I can tell you from personal experience that on a 20 GB Travelstar drive, when the connector is off by one pin, at first glance it looks more "right" than when it is aligned properly.

Fortunately the pin layout is such that no damage is done to the drive when it is powered up with a misaligned connector.

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