Friday afternoon hardware questions

[Ben Scott]

On 6/23/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> #2) ... neither the case nor the card came with hard
> drive indicator light cables to patch into the front LEDs.

  Are you saying the case has front LEDs, but no wires on them?  How odd.

On 6/23/06, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you mean the standard 0.1" headers?  (IDE is 0.1" spacing, so if
> the spacing looks the same...)
> http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/CON-242/189/2-PIN_CONNECTOR_W_HEADER,_.10%22#34;_.html

  I don't think that's *quite* the right thing, but it's very close.
The above is keyed.  Most controller cards I've seen have headers that
look like this:

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/DHS-4/search/HEADER,_2_X_4_STRAIGHT_.html

  The connectors that go on them are, I believe, essential the same
thing as a "jumper".  It's just that rather then jumping from one pin
to the other, there are two wires coming out.

  Googling for jumper+connector+wire appears to yield pretty good
results.  For example, the first match is this:

http://www.superdroidrobots.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=478

  HTH,

-- Ben