Jumpers, was: Re: 1541-III group buy?

[Tothwolf]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Monday 08 October 2007 18:09, Tony Duell wrote:
> 
>>> I do as well.  I thought we were talking about the jumpers blocks.  I
>>
>> I assuem everyone saves those from dead ISA cards, PC drives, etc. 
>> Older drives often had 0.1"-spacing jumpers on them (2mm are, alas, 
>> common now I think).
>
> The 0.1" stuff is about all I have on hand here, ones that I've 
> collected over the years.
>
> A while back I got a hold of a bunch of 2G SCSI-wide drives, which seem 
> to need something a bit smaller -- is that the 2mm size you refer to 
> here?  Any idea where I might get a hold of some?  Setting device 
> numbers would seem to be indicated if I'm going to use these. :-)

I've used at least 4 different sizes on SCSI drives and I think there are 
a few other sizes also in common use.

$0.25/ea isn't unheard of for the good jumpers from the electronics supply 
companies. Mouser or Digikey would probably have them for slightly less, 
but I often buy that sort of thing on the surplus market for pennies or 
less.