Two days ago I was stupid, very stupid. I tried to plug my 3.5" PATA HDD into a 2.5" IDE cable. Those of you that have done this, you'll know that it generally fucks with the pins or worse. I got off easy, it only pushed pin 36 most of the way back into the controller on the drive, but that was enough to make the drive useless.
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