Ian Reinhart Geiser on Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:41:03 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] SCSI cases


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On Wednesday 15 January 2003 08:14 pm, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > 	Im looking for an older SCSI case and haveing problems finding one.  I
> > use to have a 4 bay SCSI case that had a centronics connector on the back
> > and its own power supply.  Since I got rid of it in all of my college
> > moves.
> >
> > 	Now im looking for one again, the problem is all I can seem to find
> > online are the raid cases, and those seem to be over $100.  Ideally im
> > looking for something with a powersupply and thats is.  Ideally 4 drive
> > bays.
> >
> > 	Has anyone seen this sort of beast and know where I can get one used or
> > surplus?
>
> I don't know if this will work, but I have heard that it was suggested to
> use an old case from an old pc to house the drives and supply power. It
> might work as these are freely given away everywhere, it seems. It might
> be a bit ugly, cumbersome with the cables, however.

This is my current plan B, the only rub is I seem to remember from somewhere 
that is was bad to run those powersupplies without the main MB connector 
connected to a load...  

I may keep looking for a while though since my drives will not arrive until 
friday.

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