One G5 as usual, one dead G5 as a disk server?

[fivegrand]

So without a long and boring story that no one cares about, I'll just say that I have two G5's, one is perfect and one is well and truly dead.

I'm scheming to convert the dead box into a disk server (essentially a RAID array but without the redundancy), and I'm curious about the attachment method.

I would really like to figure out how to attach via PCI cards, as in SCSI-SCSI or a SATA-SATA card (Neither Firewire nor USB are fast enough for what I have planned). But with the logic board being fried, I'm thinking that won't work unless there's an aftermarket bridge available that can be fitted to a PCI window.

The nuts and bolts and soldering stuff (power supply routing, volume pot for fan control, etc) isn't a problem, just trying to figure out an attaching bridge between the two boxes. Basically if I can figure out how to get from one box to the other, once I'm inside it's no problem.

Any thoughts?

 

[IroquoisPliskin]

Put some eSATA cards in your good computer and use a PCI eSATA adapter and make the bad computer into a big external enclosure.

http://www.acmecables.com/detail/index.cfm?nPID=616

 

[fivegrand]

Beautiful!

The plot thickens...

Thank you!

 

[4JNA]

bridge over troubled water

for a one cable solution, try THIS. one bridge on either end, InfiniBand cable in the middle, done. sweet!