[G4] Acard AEC-6280M Boot

[shopdog at mac.com]

Richard:  The shorting worked!  The power supply turns on and I'm  
successfully powering 2 hard drives outside the G4 chassis.  That  
makes 7 HDs connected to the G4's internal buses.

Doug:  Thank you for detailing your setup.  I'm running into a  
practical problem, though-- since I wanted to run one of the Acard's  
ribbon cables outside the chassis, I had to remove one of my PCI cards  
(a SCSI card which I no longer need) so that I could run the cable  
through the resulting "missing card window".  This works, but it would  
be great to still be able to use the internal PCI slot.  How did you  
run the cables outside the chassis, and did you have to sacrifice any  
of your internal PCI cards to do it?

shopdog


On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Doug Burton wrote:

>
> By now others have answered as to why the PS doesn't come on, but as  
> to my setup, I used a large 5.25" full-height drive case which I had  
> from when I used 4 full-height 50 Gb SCSI HD's as my server drives.   
> I gave one of the cases to another person who wanted to duplicate my  
> setup, but I still have 2 left, beside the one I am using.  With  
> homemade brackets, these cases can hold four 3 1/2 x 1 inch high  
> drives.  Of course the built-in PS can handle the load, but some Y  
> power connectors were required to power all 4 drives.  This setup  
> has been working great since I put it together about a month ago.
>
> Just a message from Doug...
>
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