olsonr@acfcluster.nyu.edu (01/29/91)
Hello All I am afraid I am stuck. I have purchased a Plus Development SCSI hard disk (105 meg) that came with...105 meg. Okay, I'll admit it...I'm not the worlds greatest electronics expert. I am great filling 'em. But to be honest, I'm no good pluggin' 'em in. I've noticed quite a few postings about people making their own SCSI cables. That frightens me. Not that it requires any amount of work, but that it won't work right...I've lost two mother boards to my earlier experimentations with circuit making and power shocks...so I'm not excited at the thought of this being a doit-at-home kinda job (especially when this is concerning my home box) Okay, the specs. It's a 50 pin connector (50?) that needs to attatch to an IBM MicroChannel (PS/2 Model 50Z) SCSI adapter The drive is small enough to fit in the disk drive bay hollowed out for the second floppy disk drive that never happened, so I would like this to be an internal job. Okay, let's say the cable is not hard to come by. It also needs a powersource. Anybody know where to get some of those? (Why do I assume RS might carry the parts?) And last, is there anybody out there that knows of mounting hardware and a possible new faceplate to make use of what I believe is a disk in use light. If it sounds like I'm ignorant, I am. I admit. I am not ashamed. I pulled radios apart when I was young, but I also discovered I wasn't too good putting them back together. I have an understanding of how this works, I just don't posess the talent and skill to *make* it work. And to be honest, I do not know where to begin. If you're thinking, "Why doesn't he just call the company?" I retor, I did call the company...nobody seems to know. Thank you if you read this and could not help me. Thank you and a thousand thank you's if in some way you could. Ron olsonr@kramden.nyu.edu