Becoming superstitious about hard drives.

After a week of experimentation, this scenario is the only way i could get a spanking brand new HDD to be read by any version of linux.

 

Any pointers on to what the heck I might have been doing wrong before are appreciated.

 

I was trying to put two HDD's on the same cable together and know knows what else I was doing wrong.

 

Now I just gotta figure out how to get the HDD back into the computer case. :(

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