Friday afternoon hardware questions
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Mon Jun 26 10:45:01 EDT 2006
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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