Accessing a disk

[Al Balmer]

Hello Mark-

OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because as
far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group - my
reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably good
people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such, so it's
really a complement to you guys technical skill!

We don't need the "complement", or even a compliment. Take your
hardware questions elsewhere.

 

[Al Balmer]

Jumper the drives according to this diagram:

Please don't encourage wildly off-topic questions by answering them
here. Redirect the questioner to a more appropriate venue and answer
it there.

 

[Richard]

We don't need the "complement", or even a compliment. Take your
hardware questions elsewhere.

Thats two replies you have made to dead threads. Ignore or help. Simple.

 

[Richard]

Please don't encourage wildly off-topic questions by answering them
here. Redirect the questioner to a more appropriate venue and answer
it there.

3 out of the last 5 replies in this group are you net nannying. Please. Stop.

 

[CBFalconer]

OK, thanks for the info. I thought a paperclip would work because
as far as I can tell a jumper is a metal ring that goes around some
pins...

Incidentally, everyone is saying this is off-topic for the group -
my reasoning for posting here was that C programmers are probably
good people to have technical knowledge about hard disks and such,
so it's really a complement to you guys technical skill!

Nonsense. You have been told both things - move this to
alt.comp.hardware, and to stop top-posting. The purpose of
newsgroups is to keep subjects separated. Since you have refused
to co-operate you are now PLONKED here, and probably also by others
in c.l.c.

 

[Keith Thompson]

3 out of the last 5 replies in this group are you net nannying. Please. Stop.

And another two are you whining about other people's responses.
Please. Stop.

 

[faq]

Look pal, what the hell is your problem? I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out, what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar
in?

 

[Al Balmer]

Look pal, what the hell is your problem? I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out, what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar
in?

<Plonk>

 

[Flash Gordon]

Look pal, what the hell is your problem?

You top posting and you posting to a completely inappropriate place.

I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out, what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar
in?

Why is it OK for YOU to post in completely the wrong place but not OK
for people to tell you this? What gives YOU to stick YOUR ear in to a
group for discussing C asking a question that is nothing to do with C?

Oh, by the way, you have probably obliterated your chances of getting
help from the most knowledgeable people who read this group even if you
post in the correct place and they know the answer, and the people
posting suggestions are probably not the most knowledgeable here.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Look pal, what the hell is your problem?

The problem is yours - you're asking offtopic questions, and to make
things worse when you're redirected to a more sensible place, you get
rude.

I asked this group for
technical advise,. and if those here who aren't as misanthropic as you
want to help out,

you realise you have no idea whether the advizse theyve given you
(including mine) is correct ? Since this group talks about C, not
about some random hardware, the answers you got may be utter tripe. At
least one of them was

what gives you the right to keep sticking your oar in?

Everyone's free to comment on your post. What gives you the right to
barge into a group, ask wildly offtopic questions, completely ignoring
local customes, and then be abusive to the regulars? Try that in your
local pub sometime, and see how long you last.

--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan