Data Recovery

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:46:39PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, JoeHill wrote:
> > BTW, I meant to ask before, why in the name of all that is holy is it so
> > freaking hard to disconnect power cables from HD's?!
> 
> Well, you don't want them to disconnect themselves by accident...! :-)
> 
> That said, it's hard because they use an old, cheap connector design,
> which we now seem to be stuck with forever.  It's all IBM's fault. :-)

At least SATA doesn't use them anymore.  Yay!  The new SATA connectors
have different pin lengths to allow for hotpluging.

Lennart Sorensen
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