Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Dennisk
From : Moondog
Date : Sat May 16 2020 23:36:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Dennisk to Moondog on Sat May 16 2020 08:18 pm


 > 
 >  Mo> I find some humor in the board designers finallly placing ATA and
 >  Mo> floppy headers on the edge of boards instead of the random spots in the
 >  Mo> middle, only to see the devices that used them either e phased out or
 >  Mo> replaced with a newer, thinner standard.  The only benefit I see for
 >  Mo> having the connectors somewhere other than the edges is if the board
 >  Mo> was designed for specific slimline case, and connector location was
 >  Mo> critical to the design.
 > 
 > With the roomy cases of the old XT system, it wasn't a problem.  You had roo
 > to put a small dog in the case.  I lost a partition due to a faulty IDE ribb
 > cable.  I must have pulled it in and out of a drive too many times, and
 > something came loose, which I didn't realise until the FAT table got scrambl
 >  SATA connectors are not designed to be pulled in and out much either, but t
 > do plug and unplug easier.
 > 
 > 
 > ... Dennis Katsonis

I've senen my share of monster towers with more bays than you could ever use,
but I've also run into quite a few OEM designs where they tried to tuck as
many items in the smallest case possible.  For a couple of years ZDS wanted to
get into budget mass market systems and resorted to hiring a Taiwanese
company to build them and market them in catalogs such as Crutchfield's. 
These were branded plain jane 486 and 386 clones with 100 Watt psu's and a
case that was just big enough to house the main baord, a riser card, a 3.5"
floppy, a 5.25" floppy, and a hard drive.  Technically there were 2 5.25"
bays, however literature that came with it ignored the second bay because of
the low powered psu.  IIRC the psu had a wierd form factor, so finding a
larger psu that fit was a no go.

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