Hi all: I've been developing and testing on a tdm400p card and it's been going well. As you probably know, the tdm400p needs an ide power supply, but the dell poweredge 2600 that this card is destined for eventually has all the power supplied on the backplane with no ide cables. The thing is, on the motherboard in the server, there is an ide ribbon connector, and beside that, something also marked ide, that looks suspiciously like a power supply takeoff. I've talked to the good folks at dell about this, and they are as clueless as ever. Has anyone run into this problem before and, if so, have you found the secret cable that turns the power supply on the board into a regular ide cable? Cheers, -grant -- Grant McInnes <grant.mcinnes@utoronto.ca>
Hi Grant -> As you probably know, the tdm400p needs an ide power supply, but the > dell poweredge 2600 that this card is destined for eventually has all > the power supplied on the backplane with no ide cables. > > The thing is, on the motherboard in the server, there is an ide ribbon > connector, and beside that, something also marked ide, that looks > suspiciously like a power supply takeoff. > > I've talked to the good folks at dell about this, and they are as > clueless as ever. Has anyone run into this problem before and, if so, > have you found the secret cable that turns the power supply on the > board > into a regular ide cable?I'm assuming you mean the 4-pin molex power cable to supply devices. Yes, I had the same problem on various Dells - too short, or not enough cables. You can get extenders for more length and splitters for more devices. Just do a google search for 4-pin molex. You should find some options. If you don't find anything, or you don't want to wait for an adaptor, you can always solder some more length into your cable. That's the route I've always taken (because I'm impatient and cheap). Thanks, Noah
Grant McInnes wrote:> Hi all: > > I've been developing and testing on a tdm400p card and it's been going > well. > > As you probably know, the tdm400p needs an ide power supply, but the > dell poweredge 2600 that this card is destined for eventually has all > the power supplied on the backplane with no ide cables.I used a molex splitter from another drive. On the topic of the dell 2600, I had to change servers as I could not get the t100p and tdm400p on their own irq's (It also had the raid card which is not supported in the new megaraid driver, but that is another story). Anyway in the bios, I could only set the irq to share with the raid controller or the gigabit ethernet. I was getting tons of irq misses which caused frame slips (and bad echo) on the t1. Anyway, please let me know how it goes and watch for irq misses. ** This was a while back, and it could have been a 2650, so please verify this for yourself ** Jeb Campbell jebc@c4solutions.net