14 Jan
2006
14 Jan
'06
7:14 p.m.
On 1/14/06, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
This mass storage bay of this cabinet has a backplane full of somewhat
centronics-like connectors. The carriers can hold one 5.25" full
height drive, or a pair of 3.5" drives, and have extrusions to hold
them into the card slots in the bay. They also have the ID plug
sockets in the front of them, as you describe.
I heard from somebody (might be Ethan Dicks) that you if you had SCSI
controllers, you could make some small changes to the wiring and then
install SCSI disks in those bays. The connectors have 50 pins -- same
as those used with SCSI disks.
vax, 9000
If I can find the carriers, it'd be nice: lots neater, less tracking
down of cables and reengineering the inside of the cabinet.
De