Lost jumper to HDD...

Oooska · 05-05-2002, 02:49 PM

I've managed to lose the jumper to my main HDD (a Quantam Bigfoot HDD). The HDD is huge, and you would think it would at least use a standard size jumper, but it doesn't. The jumper is incredibly small. I've tried jumpers from some other hardware just to make sure it wouldn't work, and it didn't. I haven't gone out yet to the store, but I don't think they would carry this kind of jumper... I've never seen a jumper like it before.

Can anyone think of anything I may be missing?

Thanks in advance,
Oooska

Mara · 05-05-2002, 02:55 PM

Use something made of metal to connect those two things... Whatever, really. There is a kind of aluminium foil sometimes used to keep food inside, It'll be good.

Serena · 05-06-2002, 01:46 PM

Go to these places and probably one can supply you with new jumpers:

http://www.jdr.com/
http://www.dalco.com/
http://www.hypermicro.com/

vfs · 05-07-2002, 02:41 PM

Try this at your own, but I had success with Coke cans. You just need pliers and good scissors.

You cut the small piece of the "cover" (the stuff that goes down, inside the can when you open it), like a ribbon and use the pliers to mould it in the fashion you need.

Other (and very brute force) way is to use a soldring iron and drop some lead in the contacts. It works, but is stupid. Think about it as a last chance solution.

HTH,

vfs.

Rashkae · 05-09-2002, 08:57 AM

Just go a good computer shop where they build their own systems. Chances are good they have more of them than they know what to do with.

bodfa · 05-13-2002, 12:46 AM

Yup I agree with Rashkae... I work at a shop, and we have a ton, both standard, and micro (Real common in old drives, where the jumpers are on the controler card)-- Witch is just like the bigfoot (Triangle controler with the jumpers on it!) But I would suggest that you pick up another drive while you are there bigfoots crash left and right (Compaq loves em...)