On 2012/05/29 10:16 (GMT-0400) Carl Hartung composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
There were two "standards", Intel's, and the other one, which was used by SuperMicro and various other manufacturers. When not able to use a cable supplied with the motherboard, it was always necessary to check a non-Intel motherboard's wiring diagram to see which of the two, then locate a cable to match it. Or if no wiring diagram was available, just keep trying others from the stash until a serial mouse would work.
Good grief! I'd forgotten that I'd forgotten this. It seems so long ago. Wasn't this around the same time we were populating memory boards ("full slot") with our own DIMMs? ... Correction, of course I meant dual inline packaged DRAM chips :-)
That may have dated the inception of the problem, but it continued until ATX made the cabling all but obsolete. Leave it to Intel to resurrect the problem a decade later by leaving serial connectors off their motherboards' back panels. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org