[rescue] Mysterious CDROM enclosure connectors

[ssandau at bath.tmac.com]

> >>> Whilst at work I uncovered a nifty little dual CDROM enclosure from the
> >>> garbage downstairs (along with a bunch of other neato stuff like a boxed
> >>> rackmount hub, 4Gb Compaq SCA drive in sled, boxed barcode scanner, etc).
> >>> The only problem is I can't identify the connector.
> >> ...
> >>> I can only find vague references to this device (apparently OS/2 supports
> >>> it, for what good it's worth). Does anyone know what kind of connectors
> >>> these are?
> 
> There is a reason THAT was in the junk.
> 
> Old, slow (1x), and proprietary. You would be best off to get the drive
> addies out of the thing and put it back where you found it. Or use the case
> for a cheap pair of fast drives.
> 
> Just my 2% of 1 USD


Not much you can do with them. Year ago I had 4 drives (you can daisy
chain 2 units) on a Win3.1 box. Slow, but worked OK as a CD server.
Required DOS drivers and couldn't share them inder Win 95. Linux only
supported one drive, I think. Interface isn't standard SCSI or
compatible with anything else.


-- 
Steve Sandau, IS Technician
ssandau at bath.tmac.com
TMA Bath Maine