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Something like that.  

Although differing to the picture, there are four screws on each corner
of the little board.

Give me about 30 minutes and I can get you a picture.

Tracy Johnson
Office 1-757-766-4318
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Pitman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] K959 disc cage ?
> 
> Tracy,
> So there is a green circuit board with a 68 pin connector, a 
> Molex (4 pin pc type) power socket, and some jumpers for 
> addressing, screwed to the drive?
> Something like these:
> http://www.datapro.net/products/sca-adaptor-multimode-lvd-se.html
> 
> And there is a multi connector scsi cable inside the cage?
> 
> I actually have such a connector at home from adapted some 80 
> pin drives for PC scsi use years ago....
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2010 8:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] K959 disc cage ?
> 
> I pulled out the card cage from our long dead 929 (should be same as
> 959).
> 
> The discs have HP part number A3353A, which are old Seagate 4GB discs.
> 
> The interesting part is they all have a little green chip 
> board adapter
> that connects them to the ribbon cable.
> 
> I didn't take it further apart, but I suspect the little 
> board converts
> it to "whatever", in this case probably SCSI.
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> Office 1-757-766-4318
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Pitman
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:08 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [HP3000-L] K959 disc cage ?
> >
> > Anybody able to advise from eyeballing what a 959 disc cage
> > has for drive connectors please? Or point to a web site with
> > pics...? Just trying to be sure of what I need before jumping
> > in. I think they will be sockets for the 80 pin 'SCA' type -
> > Self contained adaptor? All data, power, and address select 
> together.
> >
> > How many drives will the cage take? From a vague memory, I
> > would guess at least 4 should fit.. Ours have 2 from the config.
> >
> > The drive type ST39175LC shows on Seagate as having an 80 pin
> > SCA, as does ST318275LC.
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
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