On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:13:03 -0700
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> ... I do know that this adapter has some peculiarities.
> One of the connectors looks like it has a tiny bit of a curve
> to it, two of them stick out 1/32 of an inch more than the
> others, and the gap between the rightmost two of them is
> narrower than the others. Not a sign of good manufacturing
> quality control.

Actually, that's deliberate.  The two that stick out are the power
connectors.  The idea is to have the card power up before applying
voltages to the signal connectors.  The rightmost two are data
pins; I'm not sure why they're so close.

--Dale

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