On Sunday 07 May 2006 04:38 pm, Don Y wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:00 pm, Chuck Guzis
wrote:
On 5/6/2006 at 11:34 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Oh, these drives are definitely very strange.
Made in Singapore by
IBM Singapore, the connector is like nothing I've ever seen -- it's in
four separate little sections, which are 3, 3, 4, and 8 pins wide,
but double-sided, and with spaces in between them.
I wonder if this might be some sort of SAS connector. I guess we'll
find out eventually.
That's the internal connection to the drive itself, rather than the
usual pin header that I was looking for, which is why my thoughts of
opening these up and being able to use the drives turns out to be a dead
end...
If you have the "thing into which they fit", can't you use
*that*, as an assembly, and talk TO it?
That would be the bit that the guy described as "the rack", and no, I
didn't
get it this trip. The modules in question have a connector on the back of
them that is apparently 3 rows of 24 (?) pins each, though it appears that
not all of those holes have contacts in them when you look at the part of the
connector that's inside the box. I also have a couple of power supplies that
go with "the rack". Unfortunately that's probably designed for some IBM big
iron setup and I'm not at all confident about being able to talk to it,
though if you or anyone else has any suggestions I'm interested in hearing
them...
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