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Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 11:44:31 No.1479960 View View Reply Original Report

What is the name of this port/interface? I have one of these old HDD caddies and an old HDD in it, but have no idea where to connect it, what adapter am I looking for?

All I can get is "IDE" but that's not what IDE looks like

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 12:05:01 No.1479963 Report

Quoted By: >>1479965

>>1479960
SCSI

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 12:11:53 No.1479965 Report

Quoted By: >>1479967

>>1479963
Thank you.
Looks like adapters for this stuff don't go below $100, anyone happen to know a cheaper way to connect this to a modern PC or Laptop?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 12:25:58 No.1479967 Report

Quoted By: >>1479992

>>1479965
Have you tried opening the box?
I have a feeling it's a regular IDE drive with an IDE-to-SCSI adapter.
That would explain the "UDMA-133" on the PCB.
Interfacing to IDE directly would be much easier than SCSI.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 14:19:48 No.1479992 Report

Quoted By: >>1479999 >>1480013

>>1479967
opened it, it's like you said. Thank you.

Fucking weird they made it into a pointless adapter when the box is a regular IDE on the outside, a SCSI female on the inside, and then a smaller caddy where the HDD IDE gets adapte to SCS male that goes into the female.
What was the point of this shit, they coulda just outright made it a box with the IDE cable sticking out??

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 15:05:48 No.1479999 Report

Quoted By: >>1480107

>>1479992
how swapping i guess? anyone?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 15:39:07 No.1480013 Report

Quoted By: >>1480028

>>1479992
>What was the point of this shit, they coulda just outright made it a box with the IDE cable sticking out??
Cool idea there, you got a 90s computer with external IDE ports, right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 16:41:39 No.1480028 Report

Quoted By: >>1480029 >>1480109 >>1480282

>>1480013
Early 2000s, the IDE ports aren't external, but this thing seems to provide an alternative to that (the small, inside caddy is where you hook up your HDD real quick, then you just shove it inside the 'hole' that is the bigger caddy that's all the time hooked up to the IDE and power supply on the inside of the PC).
You can google it, the brand is 'datatraveler'

Apparently they were called 'mobile racks', and I have no idea why they keep mentioning a 'USB' interface on mine, there's nothing resembling USB (maybe that was synonymous with SCSI back then??)
heres one

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1366203157/vintage-databridge-hard-drive-caddy-w-hp

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 16:42:46 No.1480029 Report

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>>1480028
databridge* my bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 23:00:29 No.1480107 Report

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>>1479999
Possibly hot swapping, or the ability to connect more drives at once. I think scsi had higher limits, like 16 per bus or such, where IDE had fixed channels with master/slave sets of very limited numbers on each cable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Aug 2024 23:03:26 No.1480109 Report

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>>1480028
Now you mention it, that's probably the only reason for the scsi interface on the back. It's probably not 'true' scsi, it's just to grant the ability to insert and remove the caddy into a slot. You couldn't do that with regular IDE because it was a billion pins on a finicky port and would have folded over real quick.
I think I had one of these caddies back in the 90s, but never paid much attention to it's internal port type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Aug 2024 14:53:09 No.1480282 Report

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>>1480028
I had a mobile rack, it looked exactly like that pic. Man, those were the days. This is how I transported data home from the place where I had access to the internet (floppy drives hold too little data, and USB flash drives weren't a thing). It didn't work with USB. I even installed Windows on it and booted into it.
Now those were the days *sips monster*

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