[rescue] Anyone interested in a Sun E3000?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 16:11:47 CST 2006


Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>> p615 has a 5.25" HH drive bay in addition to the two Thinkpad drive
>> bays.  I'm not sitting in front of any newer machines right now to
>> check.
> 
> It does, but there's no storage controller that runs to that bay unless
> you add a SCSI adapter.  I don't -think- you can just route an IDE cable
> up there.  I'm pretty sure I'd have tried that.

You know the board that has the two connectors for the two Ultrabays? 
There's a SCSI connector on the back of it.  Run a 68-pin ribbon cable 
between it and the back of your SCSI device, and voila!

It's easier to see if you pull the removeable drive bay cage out.

Peace...  Sridhar



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