Comment by regularfry
2 days ago
It's not always the case that the cable will correctly fix it. I think (hope?) any that any which didn't would be out of spec, but they exist...
2 days ago
It's not always the case that the cable will correctly fix it. I think (hope?) any that any which didn't would be out of spec, but they exist...
It's the cable that is supposed to reverse itself and not the device? I'm not entirely sure I buy that - seems like it would add a lot of unnecessary complexity to every cable.
The terminating device(s) are the ones that do the flipping, not the cable. You can take a cable that works either way between two high-end device, and then connect it to at least one low-end device and it will fail to connect for one of the two orientations.