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Removing PE 2550 SCSI back plane for SATA
Hello,
New to this forum. I bought two PE 2550 for a customer to use as file servers. I was thinking of using a PCI SATA controller card and using the slots for the removable SCSI HDD caddy for the new SATA drives. The problem is that the caddy with the new SATA drives will not fit the slot because of the SCSI back plane. Can I eliminate the SCSI back plane (taking out the back plane card, SCSI key, and daughter card, along with the cables and setting the embedded SCSI to off). I actually tried it, but the EMS complains that SCSI channel A or B is configured wrong or it is missing the daughter card. What should I do next. Now it will halt on EMS with SCSI error. Or PE2550 need to have the SCSI backplane along with the daughter card in order for it to boot? I would think that you can remove ALL SCSI connection (backplane) w/o affecting EMS or the boot process.
Thanks for your help.
InvalidServiceT
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Posted April 9th, 2009 02:00
The backplane and riser are actually part of the firmware of the server and are integral to the function of it.On the right side there is room for a tape drive or there is the 5th drive slot cage installed. Pull that out and you should be able to just sit a single drive in there. If you have the actuall cage installed then you can remove it's backplane and cut off the back end of it to make room for sata, use a molex to sata power adapter, throw the sata drive in the old style tray and rock n' roll. The only issue I could forsee is trying to wire up the sata data cable through that mess inside the 2550 (better than the 2450 but still bad) and having enough length.
Good luck and happy modding.