Re: FreeBSD > 4.11 hardware issue with Asus PSCH-SR/SATA mobo

After replacing jpd with a small shell script on Monday 12 Jun 2006
20:40, the following appeared on stdout:

[1] Yes, that's just three wires, and for short lengths a bit of
[telephone cable will do just fine.

Telephone cable [1]? Just leave your geek card with the doorman, Mr.
Jpd. All serial cables, whether they be UPS, null modem, for the
EPROM burner or otherwise shall only be made from the best quality,
low-loss category 5 cable - the solid stuff, mind you, so you have to
get the soldering iron out every other time you use them - and never
a D shell nor a piece of neoprene sleeving shall be sighted. Pure
hardware prowess and peer admiration will keep those lines from
shorting. Believe...

handwave This is not the short you're looking for! Splendid. Now,
shall we up the ante and do the same with, oh, some 380V triphase will
do, for starters?

Of course. What self-respecting BOfH hasn't got a cat5 to three phase
adaptor?

I did plan on mentioning CAT5, then went on editing and promptly
forgot about it. Solid stuff is nice but won't stand up against
movement as well as stranded, so is not always practical.

But that is the whole point! It's no fun if it's reliable...

And, of
course, the simpler peecee variety doesn't use differential signals so
twisting the pairs is all but useless towards increasing cable quality
for this particular purpose. But I am now forced to ask, what's with
this unfair bias against telco geeking?

I actually started in the telecomms industry. I can probably still
rattle off sched 0 to 50 pairs without a lookup table when faced with a
rat's nest, but I got very tired of crawling through floor-space of
factories that had never been cleaned, much less aired, since the
places were built. I could also tell you a story about me, a cable, a
large warehouse, a fork-lift truck and a very old pallet, but then I'd
have to go and take a sedative. I still get vertigo just *thinking*
about it...
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Chronos

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