[tech] Warning/Disturbing

[David Manchester]

> Bingle
> 
> Had a quick looksee in the machine room. Yes, it is a mess but I
> am not going to complain about that! :-) 

*mumble*

> The drives on mola have been moved from a disk box I obtained ages ago
> to the case that came with the next. The original box had a quirk that

Which had my two 700MB drives in it for the squid cache.
Where are these..?

> could have melted some of the cabling. There is a set of headers on the
> PSU and a matching socket with n+-1 pins for the power cables. If the 
> header is not matched up correctly the +5V rail is sent down one of the
> ground lines and if a drive is plugges in, then down the other ground 
> line. Effectivly creating a short on the 5V line. This does not shut the 
> PSU down (presumibly the short isn't quite good enough). As a resuly
> the power cabling melts. The SCSI box is quite nice apart from that and 

OK.... but since no-one goes poking around inside mola's guts, was this
really necessary..?

> I would not like to see it get junkied because someone with no hardware
> clue could not make it work(that is how I got the box in the first place). 
> 
> If UCC does not want it I will gladly find a home for it. I just don't
> know where the box has gone to.

So, recapping, you removed them from the box, blinked and it was gone..?

If you need some SCSI external shizz, ask me :)

Cheers
/dave
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