My friend and I recently gutted an old dead Proliant server (something
with a P133 in it) We each took parts to add on to our existing
computers. One of the parts I took was the 5 disk-hotpluggable drive
cage, and 5 drives.

I hooked up a power supply to the cage (standard molex connectors) and
plugged it into my SCSI card. It works if I connect the FW SCSI
connector, but not the 50 pin ribbon connector. My SCSI card detects,
and spins up the drives, but when trying to access the drives through
Linux gets nothing but timeouts trying to access the drives in the
cage. (Only have 2 of the drives in the bay, 3 of them were DOA and
were removed)

The part number on the board is 169185-001.

Does anyone have any experiance getting these to work outside of a
Compaq server?

What do all the jumpers do, is there one to set/clear termination?

Does anyone know where to find a PDF reference guide for the board and
it's settings?