From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 13 12:44: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A441714EEE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atrn@zeta.org.au) Received: (qmail 17213 invoked from network); 13 Sep 1999 19:43:50 -0000 Received: from d219.syd2.zeta.org.au (HELO ska.bsn) (203.26.9.91) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 13 Sep 1999 19:43:50 -0000 Received: (from andy@localhost) by ska.bsn (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA79103; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 05:57:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andy) Message-Id: <199909131957.FAA79103@ska.bsn> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 05:57:13 +1000 (EST) From: atrn@zeta.org.au Reply-To: atrn@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: damn ATX power supplies... To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199909131907.MAA91915@whistle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Sep, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > A staple bent properly and wedged in the crimp part of the pin between > the green wire to a black wire does the trick for me. When building a box of disks (no m/b) we used a paper clip. No m/b meant we could just short the pins and not worry about plugging it in. Damm lab tech. saw it and did it properly (even used heat shrink on the patched wires, sigh... how "tidy" and h/w like is that). Oh, and watch our for the Canon "ATX Motherboard Emulator" patent ;) -- Andy Newman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message