I have a couple of 6-drive hot swap bays that some of these drives came out of;
unfortunately I didn't make a note of what systems they came out of but they
look like the bay in this Proliant ML370:
http://techtradepartners.squarespace.com/blog/2011/1/3/we-practice-what-we-preach.html
although this 5500 looks vaguely familiar and there are two of these bays...:
http://tempcomgauper.blog.com/2014/04/06/compaq-proliant-5500-server/
In any case, they interface through a 68-pin SCSI connector and a 6-pin power
connector; by any chance would anyone know where I could find the pinout for
that power connector?
Maybe this isn't the best place to ask; is there a forum where server fans hang
out?
Thanks,
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane Healy" <[email protected]>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: SCA drives - any interest?
On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/02/2015 08:54 AM, Mike Stein wrote:
In case anyone is looking for the 'caddies' it looks like they're
mostly HP/Compaq, including several dummies; I scrapped more IBM
servers than HP, but to my surprise I only found two IBM units.
The nice thing about SCA drives is that adapters for narrow- or wide-SCSI
are/used to be available. I've run SCA drives with old Power Macintoshes, for
example.
I don't know if it's still true, but high-performance SCA drives do tend to
run pretty hot.
--Chuck
I have one or two of those adapters somewhere. Any SCA drives I've used, have
been quite hot, which is why I run them in external enclosures intended for
them. It's rare to find ones that run at less than 7200rpm, most are 10k or
15k.
Zane
