21 Oct
2004
21 Oct
'04
12:45 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:58:00PM -0700, Doc Shipley
wrote:
Could be. I think these might have been the cans in a full-wide
shelf, too. The bridge board is about 8" x 12", and sits above the PSU,
with the ESDI drives sitting sideways in the enclosure in front of that.
Open PSU inside, and a logic board that converts
the SDI I/O to talk
to 2 Maxtor XT-8760-E ESDI drives.
Oops... I misread your message and parsed "SMD" where you wrote
"ESDI".
Perhaps we have the same bridge card, but in a different enclosure? Can't verify now... give me a few months if you
don't find any info.
Awww, c'mon, Ethan! Just trot out to the garage and have a look!
I'm going to test the power and check them out, and then ASSume that
if the drives are functional then it'll talk to a UDA50 or KDA50 without
further ado. They're both clean, inside and out, but were stacked sort
of willy-nilly on a cement floor when I found them. I don't know how
tough those Maxtors are, or even yet whether they autopark on power-down.
If they work, it'll be a major improvement - power-wise, space-wise,
volume-wise, and noise-wise - over the RA60s I'm running now. :)
I can probably post pics on my web page if anybody's interested.
Doc