On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:00, 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.
As I said in the thread yesterday, it's an IBM SSA disk connector.
It's IBM's pre-fiberchannel "fiberchannel" - a serial link to
connect a string of disks to a controller. They made MCA and PCI
adapters for RS/6000s, as well as some AS/400 adapters (I think),
and it was also used for storage in the Multiprise 2003 ("small"
s/390 system; processor and DASD in a standard IBM S/390 rack).
Actually I think you might have said something to that effect in an
email to me but I don't think you said anything in here.
A PCI card, huh? Hmm... :-)
There might be some hope for these things after all.