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Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit

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"rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

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.

James

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  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
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          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
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              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
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            Re: Raspberry Pi 1Tbyte hard drive kit "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 21:06 +0100
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