Todd Walton wrote:
1) A typical IDE-based PC has how many IDE interfaces?
Pedantically, one, IIRC. IDE != ATA. IDE was Western Digital specific and I believe only had one on the motherboard originally.
As for Parallel ATA, it has 2 interfaces, but four connectors. For Serial ATA, its all over the map.
2) COM1 and COM3 are typically associated with which IRQ?
On board or on card? Real serial port or a modem? I don't know of any good answer to that one.
3) Which three files are necessary for a Windows 9x recovery disk?
Probably either AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS in addition to the ones you mentioned.
4) A user complains that she cannot access the network. Others claim they cannot reach the user by the network. What should be your first step?
Step 1: Is the computer turned on?
Number 4, I chose "replace the card". In my former life as an electronics tech, we'd *never* start with swapping, but the other three choices made less sense. I was wrong. If that was wrong, then "ping the computer" would be the next step. I guess that makes sense. You want to collect data and verify your symptoms yourself, right?
Ping the computer *long* before swapping the card. The computer can respond to a ping but people still can refer to it as "not on the network".
How many motherboards even *have* a parallel ATA interface anymore given Serial ATA?
I probably don't own a computer with a COM port anymore unless the modem still qualifies (but it could be USB).
Wow. Talk about a test of useless *old* trivia. -a -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
