David Vicente Vegue
๐ โฏ๏ธTeresita๐ง๐ญ
Mayor of Nerdocrumbesia ๐กI still have a pack of those. That I paid for.
Hey Gus
Janie Karma S ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐ฟ
Hermannus Stegeman
Erwan ๐@hermannus @Karma_J @linuxgal RS-488 was a good connection for the time (just add to remember that ID 1 = tape, 4 = printer, 8 = floppy)
Innocuous In Innisfil Has Moved
Pseudo Nym"It's just a jumper to the left, and a step to the riiiight."
โโ (โ โ หโ _โ หโ )โ โ alm10965 โข 6ร๐@linuxgal @pseudonym I'm just remembering Depeche Mode Master & Servant
Volker 
๐ป๐ฉ@alm10965
๐คฃ Same here. Saw the picture and got instantly the opening cords ๐คฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ถ๐ต
๐คฃ Same here. Saw the picture and got instantly the opening cords ๐คฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ถ๐ต
FreieSoftwareOG@pseudonym @linuxgal A jumper here, a dip switch in the board...
bondolo
Owl Eyes
Linh Pham@linuxgal Even better/worse was dealing with folks who would install SCSI drives into machines but forgetting to change the SCSI ID jumper on the drives (or ID switches on the back of external enclosures).
Certain servers required drives at specific IDs depending on boot, optical, etc.
cmdrSprocket@linuxgal Ohh Yeah!
wobweger 
martin lentink ๐ช๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ๐
Corvus
Legion495
Sibrosan
D Ingram
Paul Armstrong@ingram RLL would like to join that conversation.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@linuxgal IDE master/slave jumpersโฆ and ISA card jumper settingsโฆ yes, still remember that.
Vendela
Cyb3rrunn3r :fediverse::verified::fckafd:@linuxgal #ichBinSoAlt , ich kenne das auch noch. ๐
Beko Pharm@linuxgal ngl, was always afraid these would simply explode when not connected the right way ๐คช
Reinald Kirchner@linuxgal Interrupts und IO-Adressen per Jumper auf ISA-Karten festlegen... good old times.
Und natรผrlich Master uns Slave auf den Festplatten.
Mart7n
xorox
Albert Hickey@linuxgal master/slave....
30+ years ago for RAID with SCSI drives not only had you to set the IDs manually but depending on the server/controller/number of drives you had to tell the SCSI controller to spin up the drives one by one as the surge in current would overload the power supply.
Raven Luni@linuxgal I remember the consequences for getting it wrong
Marc Tapages, sale conne ๐ฐโ๐ฒ๐บ@linuxgal Could someone explain what/ why is he trying to short?
Ethan Black@closeted_unionist @linuxgal I wasn't around then, but it has to do with how a long time ago you would use jumpers to store basic, very low-level settings.
I think here this person is using a jumper to set a hard drive as Master, something to do with multi-HDD setups having a master/slave configuration.
I think here this person is using a jumper to set a hard drive as Master, something to do with multi-HDD setups having a master/slave configuration.
Marcel@linuxgal Enslave your IDE Disk - that is fresh new stuff if you low level formatted you MFM/RLL Disk using debug.com - no thats not a domain ;-) https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/format_harddisk.php
Vincent ๐ป๐ช๐บ en ๐นโ๏ธ@linuxgal The magical Cable Select (CS)
Aho
botvolutionbotvolution (@[email protected])
If you haven't initiated a low level format with DEBUG have you even computered at all tho?
marcus
BSM (s.b.n) ๐จ๐ญ@linuxgal I know ๐
Alexander Goeres ๐ฏ@๐ โฏ๏ธTeresita๐ง๐ญ nice stories from the goodoldpast ...
back in the 90 when i had bought my first computer, a pc, under the pretext to need it for writing stuff for uni, but soon realizing that games were also possible, i wanted to upgrade the disk. i asked in a computer shop for the price; i don't remember how much they wanted for the disk, but they wanted more than 100 DM to "set it up" as they "explained". stuff i couldn't do because it was weird tech like configuring connections an installing jumpers aso. i was quite furious and impolitely declined. later the same week i ran across the tech section in a book shop and instantly saw: "Computer reparieren und aufrรผsten" / "repairing and upgrading computers". that book was only 25 DM. quite a lot for me still, but not 100 DM. i looked up the index for "jumper" and havent been to a "computer repair shop" ever since ... jumper! those were the days ....
back in the 90 when i had bought my first computer, a pc, under the pretext to need it for writing stuff for uni, but soon realizing that games were also possible, i wanted to upgrade the disk. i asked in a computer shop for the price; i don't remember how much they wanted for the disk, but they wanted more than 100 DM to "set it up" as they "explained". stuff i couldn't do because it was weird tech like configuring connections an installing jumpers aso. i was quite furious and impolitely declined. later the same week i ran across the tech section in a book shop and instantly saw: "Computer reparieren und aufrรผsten" / "repairing and upgrading computers". that book was only 25 DM. quite a lot for me still, but not 100 DM. i looked up the index for "jumper" and havent been to a "computer repair shop" ever since ... jumper! those were the days ....
Tofu Golem@linuxgal
This left me emotionally scarred to the point that I obsessively buy needlenose pliers even if I don't need them.
In case any younger people are curious about why drives were like this, those IDE protocols were developed by drunken pixies, and I don't think it was possible to have drivers for a hard drive under MS-DOS.
Julian West๐ฆ@linuxgal that's enough to make a dip switch
Mark Malowany ๐จ๐ฆ
Vick Forcella โข๐๐ณโ๏ธโ๏ธ:verifi
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
Gordon ๐ฎโโ๏ธ&๐จโโ๏ธ@machteburch@linuxgal Make it a slave!
Karl Baron@linuxgal Why did Cable Select never work properly
Polype agonique@linuxgal those were called "Cavaliers" in French.
Makes more sense to me.
Makes more sense to me.