[rescue] RAID (was Re: Insane drives)

[P Nutton]

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:31:01PM -0500, Scott Newell wrote:
> > 
> > Something I've been wondering about--can you collect dead 
> SCSI drives that
> > use the same mechanism and replace the FC board with the 
> SCSI board?  
> > 
> > I'd love to try if someone has a dead SCSI drive from the 
> same series as
> > one of the many cheap FC drives floating around the surplus market.
> 
> it should work.  if you take out the screws for the PCB , you 
> will see it's
> attatched to the drive with a small set of pins.
> 
> don't have any spare anything laying around here to try with 
> though. sorry.
> 
> -brian
> 
> ps: i may have to start colellecting the PCB boards from HDDs now. :)

Done it with SCSI drives to convert a few ex-pc Seagate SCSI drives to
central 80-ribbon connectors from the PC off to one side connector. Tried
once with a FC drive to convert, didn't work (don't know why). All the
cables matched, though. These were SUN9.0G.
-- 
Paul Nutton, naff company disclaimer to follow....
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