Hi,
Im trying to add some hard drives to a rack system.
Basically the front of the rack has space for SCSI drives but I want to add SATA drives due to the price.
I have installed an SATA in one of the PCI slots at the back of the machine and ran SATA cables through to the front.
However I dont have a power source. The power supply is a machine specific one. Which plugs straight into the motherboard.
Near the drives there is some kind of mini floppy disc power supply that I dont recognise.
Also a SCSI power connector I dont recognise which gives power to the SCSI array.
It looks a bit like a 12 pin power connector but im not sure.
Also there are several unused 80 pin SCSI connectors. Obviously these include a power supply. I was wondering it there was someway to draw power from these ?
Possibly using something like this ?
http://www.mcpb.com/html/sca.f80hp.68f.html
However what presumably the SCSI controller will think there is a Hard drive plugged if I plug one of these in ? Is there someway I can stop this ?
Would I need to add one of these ?
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&q=SCSI+68+pin+terminator&cid=3676232477300673196&sa=title#p
Im trying to add some hard drives to a rack system.
Basically the front of the rack has space for SCSI drives but I want to add SATA drives due to the price.
I have installed an SATA in one of the PCI slots at the back of the machine and ran SATA cables through to the front.
However I dont have a power source. The power supply is a machine specific one. Which plugs straight into the motherboard.
Near the drives there is some kind of mini floppy disc power supply that I dont recognise.
Also a SCSI power connector I dont recognise which gives power to the SCSI array.
It looks a bit like a 12 pin power connector but im not sure.
Also there are several unused 80 pin SCSI connectors. Obviously these include a power supply. I was wondering it there was someway to draw power from these ?
Possibly using something like this ?
http://www.mcpb.com/html/sca.f80hp.68f.html
However what presumably the SCSI controller will think there is a Hard drive plugged if I plug one of these in ? Is there someway I can stop this ?
Would I need to add one of these ?
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&q=SCSI+68+pin+terminator&cid=3676232477300673196&sa=title#p
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