Friday afternoon hardware questions

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 23, 2006, at 16:56, Ben Scott wrote:

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

yeah...

>  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.

Thanks.  That helped get me googling.  I started there, wound up  
searching for '2-pin cable' based upon results and then stumbled upon  
'ID-bit cable' which led me here:

     
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp? 
c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021806&p_id=696&style=&seq=1&format=1#largei 
mage

which makes some sense - these are the same kind of cables you would  
have used to jumper an external SCSI push-button ID selector.  The old  
SCSI hard drives had a bank of maybe 6 connectors, 3 for id-bits, one  
for activity indicator LED, one for read-only, and one for spin-up  
delay.

Note to the intrepid - find someone selling them with an affiliates  
account and put up a webpage called 'hard drive indicator cables' with  
a link to them. ;)

-Bill
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