[rescue] 50 pin high density SCSI hard drives?

[Ethan O'Toole]

> Wouldn't the external Sun disk packs work?  Maybe some odd cabling
> would be needed.
> --Patrick

Heh. The VME chassis is in a drawer with all of the scsi cables fed up 
into 6 other drawers, each that holds 4 drives.

It's 50 pin IDC ribbon on the edge of the VME cards. It'd be possible to 
replace it all, but it'd be a bit of a mess.

They moved from VME chassis to this gigaring thing at some point. Wish I 
could find the boards for the thing and the gigaring box, but stuff ain't 
common.

This is the VME box:
(Pic of a different system, but you get the idea)
http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/computer_stuff/cray_forsale3/left_IOS_drawer.jpg

I was thinking I could keep it somewhat stock looking and just drop 3.5" 
drives in there.

Perhaps 24 of those 50 pin to 68 pin adaptors would work.

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