8 Nov
2010
8 Nov
'10
2:32 p.m.
On 11/8/10, Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com>
wrote:
That is correct. I also have the bracket that Ethan describes mounted on a
post
at the rear side of an H960. In an other rack I needed that mounting
bracket, but
they are not an easy find. I removed the two connectors from a really dead
RL01.
On the outside fits the RL connector, on the other side fits a 40-pin IDC
header,
which in fact is mounted in the RL drive! I just connected the round cable
to the
drive, the other end of the round cable has the connector scavenged from the
dead drive, and from that goes the ribbon cable to the header on the RL11.
I used a string of wire hung from post to post to hang the ribbon cable /
round
cable inside the rack. Ugly, but functional till I find an other mounting
bracket.
Seems silly but it might be easier to scavenge
the connector off the back
of a dead RL01 or RL02 and make it into the transition than to find the
actual transition!
It's the same part, AFAIK. What I have on one rack is a special DEC
mounting bracket that can accept two of the round-cable-to-flat-cable
transitions - it's a bit larger than a pack of playing cards and
easily affixes to an H960. Mine has one transition connector, but
there is room to mount a second one. Having worked on a few RL01/RL02
drives, ISTR it's the same part that's bolted to the back of the
drives. All drives: round cable with ZIF on each end to go
from drive to
drive, plus ZIF-connector terminator that is externally identical to,
but not electrically identical to RK06/RK07 terminator.
Jup. RK06/07 cables can be used to connect RL drives, but RL cables miss
one or two wires which are used in RK06/07 drives. I should get that (and
which
wire/pins actually) written down somewhere.
- Henk.