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The chassis expansion anthology for PowerMacs
Syntho:
I'm not sure why they've got so many on Ebay all the time without the damn PCI card and the cable for it. You can't run it without it. Anyone have any spares laying around?
Protools5LEGuy:
--- Quote from: Syntho on December 28, 2014, 06:17:43 PM ---There seems to be a few different expansion chassis boxes released over time with one of them having the card built into the unit itself. I see one of those on Ebay at the moment but it doesn't come with a PCI card for a powermac as well as the cable for connecting the two. I'm not sure how hard it is to find those things.
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That is the reason I started http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2163.0. We need to have an archive of all the expansion chassis available for ours machines.
I asked there all users to make some photos to know what is it a complete system, to be easier to find parts. Lots of powermacs are sold with the cards inside... We need do differentiate them visually, in case we confuse them with SCSI cards (some systems share same conector?)
Syntho:
I looked for a manual for the SBS expansion chassis but couldn't find one. The SBS DD007-R (aka MH477) has the controller card built into the chassis itself so you don't need to install it into a spare slot on it. It apparently comes with an additional PCI card and a cable for connecting the chassis to your powermac but I can't find any info on which card and cable to use.
Let's see if we can get more info on these things...
Protools5LEGuy:
There is a brand called Bit-3 that later became SBS (?)
I make some searches on eBay like
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XSBS+chassis&_nkw=SBS+chassis&_sacat=0
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XSBS+expansion&_nkw=SBS+expansion&_sacat=0
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1312.R1.TR10.TRC3.A0.H1.Xexpa&_nkw=Expansion+chassis&_sacat=58058
And from time to time they give results as :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GE-FANUC-SBS-Technologies-85224042-Backplane-Controller-/200400234186?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2ea8c8e6ca
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GE-FANUC-SBS-Technologies-85224045-Backplane-Controller-/200510179276?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2eaf5687cc
But most of the time, I do not trust sellers that do not know what parts they are selling. But the truth is that the more ignorant the seller is, the cheaper you bought the part...
--- Quote from: Syntho on December 28, 2014, 07:08:26 PM ---I looked for a manual for the SBS expansion chassis but couldn't find one. The SBS DD007-R (aka MH477) has the controller card built into the chassis itself so you don't need to install it into a spare slot on it. It apparently comes with an additional PCI card and a cable for connecting the chassis to your powermac but I can't find any info on which card and cable to use.
Let's see if we can get more info on these things...
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Protools5LEGuy:
Please join the antology post http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2163.0 so we all can have all the info in one place. It will take time, but for sure most chassis combinations working on G4s can be reviewed there by us before summer 2015.
Let's wait for :
1 Knezzen to publish some photos on his 2 expansions rigs
2 Let's try to find the parts used by BT on his rigs (already posted there the part numbers)
3 Find out all info we can about Bit-3 / SBS chassis.
Also it is important to notice if they use ATX PSU or custom...
On eBay there are motherboards of MAGMA chassis for a fraction of the price of a complete system.
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