[Asterisk-Users] Digium Cards in Boxes without Power Connectors

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 09:02, Chris Luke wrote:
> Many of the slim compaq/hp boxes don't have DC power cables at all - the
> PSU plugs right into the mainboard which plugs directly into the daughter-
> booard that the SCSI hotplug drives plug into. They don't have floppy
> drives and the cdrom is a laptop-style job which plugs into that SCSI
> board directly.
> 
> Ie. No cables.

So you either can't use that machine or you deal with trying to pull the
power through the PCI bus. Any "Fan" card that you put in is going to
just pull the power out of the same PCI bus that the TDM card does.

> Gabriel Millerd wrote (on Jul 12):
> > > 
> > > I doubt the backplane is hardwired to the powersupply. You need to see
> > > how power is connected to the backplane. On some of our Dells, we have
> > > normal drive connectors on the backplane that the power is jumpered off
> > > of the motherboard to. You then could get a Y adapter a jump in the
> > > middle there.
> > >
> >      i dont see anything i could put a Y cable onto. there are no
> > normal drives/cdroms to splice ... i believe it would be the same
> > thing on the compaq DL's as well in voip wiki
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Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>