What happened to the IMD thread?

I could have swore we were discussing IMD's. A man in Australia wanted
to put one in his ProLiant 1200. Now I can't locate the thread (I hate
it when that happens).

Anyway, I was out in the garage ripping apart a 3000 when I encountered
an adapter that I have not seen before. It attaches to the end of the
IMD's 34pin ribbon cable, and converts it to two seperate
connectors...one with 14pins and one with 20pins, and they attach to
the motherboard at a right angle to each other.

Now, assuming that I wasn't just imagining the previous thread
(mentioned above), I think this solves the mystery.

Jeff

In article . com, Jeffrey Alsip wrote:
I could have swore we were discussing IMD's. A man in Australia wanted
to put one in his ProLiant 1200. Now I can't locate the thread (I hate
it when that happens).

Anyway, I was out in the garage ripping apart a 3000 when I encountered
an adapter that I have not seen before. It attaches to the end of the
IMD's 34pin ribbon cable, and converts it to two seperate
connectors...one with 14pins and one with 20pins, and they attach to
the motherboard at a right angle to each other.

Now, assuming that I wasn't just imagining the previous thread
(mentioned above), I think this solves the mystery.

Gee.. I guess I was correct on my thought process.. Yes, that was I believe
part of the mystery.. I'm not sure if the aussie guy solved his problem yet
or not..

-- Rick

I think it was assimilated by the "Just powered up the 7000"
thread.....

VinceV

Two connectors at right angles.... ummm.. nope. On this 1200 they are
parallel. I never got a response back from the seller of the IMD I'm
looking at so I still don't know how many versions of the IMD there are,
if there's more than one at all.

It'll still work. The headers on the old 3000 motherboard just happen
to be at a right angle. The adapter consists of two pieces of 6 inch
ribbon cable ending in the two connectors. You can plug them in in any
orientation you wish. Trust me...this is the ticket.

I now have three IMD's in front of me. One each from a 2500, 1600, and
3000. They appear to be identical. Just for the hell of it, I tried all
three of these in the 3000 tower that I rebuilt today. All three work
exactly the same. All three have the same mounting bracket and the
exact same dimensions. I think we may be talking about a basically
generic part here.

Jeff

In article . com,
says...
It'll still work. The headers on the old 3000 motherboard just happen
to be at a right angle. The adapter consists of two pieces of 6 inch
ribbon cable ending in the two connectors. You can plug them in in any
orientation you wish. Trust me...this is the ticket.

I now have three IMD's in front of me. One each from a 2500, 1600, and
3000. They appear to be identical. Just for the hell of it, I tried all
three of these in the 3000 tower that I rebuilt today. All three work
exactly the same. All three have the same mounting bracket and the
exact same dimensions. I think we may be talking about a basically
generic part here.

Jeff




I believe you're right. I've just come across an ebay listing for this
very same thing: IDC34 one end, IDC14+IDC20 the other. I've had a look
around the workshop for the bits. I've come up with an IDC34 with a
length of cable already attached, I've found an IDC20 that I can take
off another length and re-crimp, but stuffed if I can find an IDC14
anywhere. I don't recall ever designing any boards with anything less
than 20-way DIL headers on them, so that would explain why I can't find
any in the junk box.

I think I'll just send him the $11 and have it posted up from Melbourne
- I'd spend more than in fuel that driving around getting the bits
anyway.