Subject:
|
Re: Calum hates cable select was Re: Canadian Tire
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
|
Date:
|
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:18:55 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1151 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Keith Hui wrote:
> Which is why I'm staying with my Optra E310 laser bought 5 years ago at below
> par price. High yield toner run $230 but that's what the machine came with, and
> lasts me 6000 pages IOW years.
Laser all the way, I agree. No more inkjet for me. And better than that, the
toner carts for this old LJ1100 are only $75.
> You're using old cables? Or the new 80wire stuff with 3 plugs of different
> colours?
It's defintely an 80 wire, and the plugs are I think grey and black, so yes, I
think it's the right type of CS cable which sets shorts the correct pin.
> Cable select is for the weak. Real men use SCSI drives on SCA backplanes. :)
Well for that matter, real men have the vendor install it for you on a service
contract :)
> I know, cable select on IDE was never quite done right. So yeah, don't try to
> use cable select on anything other than a desktop computer.
This IS unfortunately a desktop computer, a WD800JB attached to a Asus A7V-400MX
motherboard. :(
The first thing when I took delivery of my Dell Precision was to unjumper all
the drives from CS to hard set Master and Slaves.
Calum
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Calum hates cable select was Re: Canadian Tire
|
| (...) Which is why I'm staying with my Optra E310 laser bought 5 years ago at below par price. High yield toner run $230 but that's what the machine came with, and lasts me 6000 pages IOW years. We should all wait for decent colour laser dropping (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
|
4 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
