Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Dennisk
From : Moondog
Date : Tue May 19 2020 12:40:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Dennisk to Moondog on Mon May 18 2020 07:51 pm

 
 > My 486 DX4/100 isn't much bigger.  Just big enough for two floppy drives and
 > two hard disks.  In some ways, compactness makes things a little easier, ins
 > ome ways, because you can have the IDE cable reach both the master and slave
 > drives.  One of my larger cases is more of a problem, because the cable cann
 > reach all the drives.  Obviously, longer cables would help but I can only wo
 > with what I have.
 > 
 > I wonder if you could build the case so that the power and data connectors w
 > in the case itself, with sockets at the back of the drive bay.  Just push th
 > drives in.
 > 
 > 
 > ... Dennis Katsonis

I'm sure it's possible to create a backplane with power and data on it,
however in order to make it compatible with most of the hardware out there it
may require proprietary cradles, similar to the removable drive caddys
present in the mid to late 1990's.  I noticed it more with floppies where the
power and date cables aren't consistently spaced.  Same with PATA hard drives 
and optical drive to some extent.  Modern servers are that way.  Hot swappable
 drive bays are not a new thing.

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