Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit
Date	2015-09-16 16:41 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 9/16/2015 3:54 PM, James Harris wrote:
> "rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mtcgan$jso$1@dont-email.me...
>> On 9/16/2015 2:42 PM, James Harris wrote:
>>> "rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:mtcc03$2e4$1@dont-email.me...
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Still a bit odd, since the power brick has a female connector as well.
>>>> The cable for the brick ends in a micro connector.  Is the female
>>>> connector a micro?  The illustrations don't seem to show it well and
>>>> I've not seen a female microUSB cable end before.  I guess there's
>>>> nothing to prevent that.
>>>
>>> IIRC you are in the US and will have a different power brick to me but
>>> the one I got has as normal USB (rectangular) socket and there is a
>>> cable which goes from there to a regular micro USB male connector (which
>>> plugs into the micro USB female connector on the 4-way cable).
>>>
>>> In other words, the only unusual element is the 4-way cable. All the
>>> other parts look to be standard and easily replaceable.
>>
>> The 4 way cable is what I'm asking about.  The one cable end they
>> don't show in any detail is the female USB.  I have to assume it is a
>> female *micro* USB connector.
>
> I did say that the power lead "plugs into the micro USB female connector
> on the 4-way cable". I added more because I wasn't 100% sure what you
> were asking and tried to cover all the bases.
>
>> If it is, then great, it all works fine.  I've just not seen that
>> particular type of connector before, so I assumed it was the larger
>> USB type.  I have since googled and found a number of cables with
>> micro female connectors, so I guess that is what it has.  I was not
>> able to find a better picture of the 4 way cable when I searched on
>> that to verify.  No big deal, I just didn't see how it would work out
>> is all.  Now I get it.

Yes, I said I get it. I was simply explaining why I was confused up to 
that point.  Thanks for the explanation.


> The gender of USB cables seems to conflict with what we used for
> telecoms equipment. For the latter the gender of the connector depended
> on the innermost element. I cannot take the cable apart here to look at
> it without interrupting the disk test but from pictures online the micro
> USB *female* seems to have an innermost element which looks male, but it
> is recessed, if that makes a difference.

In the USB connectors there are no mail or female pins.  The pins slide 
across each other.  So I guess they use the next level up which is the 
housing and does have clear male/female parts... I think.  I just looked 
at male USB micro laying here and I see the "female" connector has a 
tongue that slides into the "male" connector.  I think this is getting 
too far into the anatomy department.  I'll just live with the current 
terminology without questioning it further.

-- 

Rick

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Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 22:56 +0100
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-09-10 22:24 +0000
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mrbrad <lostgonzo@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 23:36 -0500
      Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mrbrad <lostgonzo@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 23:23 -0500
        Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 00:42 -0400
          Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mrbrad <lostgonzo@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 01:56 -0500
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-11 18:13 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-11 18:19 +0100
        Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-11 20:05 +0100
          Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-11 17:55 -0400
          Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 00:05 +0100
            Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-12 05:21 +0100
              Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 11:41 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-12 13:17 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-12 15:28 +0100
            Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-12 08:22 +0100
              Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 03:30 -0400
            Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit Mike Fleming <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> - 2015-09-12 09:02 +0100
              Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-09-12 09:11 +0100
                Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 04:19 -0400
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-11 07:21 +0100
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 18:59 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-09-16 19:23 +0000
  Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-11 13:30 -0400
    Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 19:02 +0100
      Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 14:23 -0400
        Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 19:42 +0100
          Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 15:37 -0400
            Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 20:54 +0100
              Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 16:41 -0400
          Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-16 19:42 +0000
            Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 21:06 +0100
              Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-16 21:19 +0000

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