doubletalk ISA (was: computers/parts for sale)

[Glenn at home]

The Jumpers in the Artic215 cards were easy enough to manipulate.
Sometimes they are difficult to set in a few of the hard drives.
I remember my first hard drive, it had a slide switch for the different 
drive settings.
I wish they all could be like that.
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel at softcon.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: doubletalk ISA (was: computers/parts for sale)


Yeah, but there's only so many positions the jumper can go in.  I
don't mind the jumpers.  In fact, I prefer them to the plug and pray
that windows uses, since I can tell the cards where they should be
looking for their configuration, and not leaving it up to a buggy os
to find them for me.  I've had too many plug and play devices that
weren't.  I can't stand them.  I currently have a motherboard that
has a network port on it that I can't use, because there's no drivers
for this board for xp.  If this was a jumpered board, I could simply
set it up the board the way I wanted, then tell the os to go do it's
thing, and there'd be no conflict.  This way, if you don't have a
driver, you don't have a device, regardless of how much you paid for it.

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