Raidcard users,do you feel your ipass not long enough?

[nanofrog]

I'm sure IF the board fails, the OP can send it back and claim on the warranty - Just won't tell them it's cause from warping
To be honest, I don't think the MP get's that hot!!

It wouldn't matter. If it failed during the warranty period, they should cover it,as a failure due to thermal cycling is a design or manufacturing flaw.

 

[haravikk]

Hmm, I'm wondering if anyone has other solutions for this? I don't really want to go about modding a cable for this, but I have the RocketRAID 4310, and even with swapping the backplane connectors to 2, 1, 3, 4 the iPass cable only just reaches the card. As soon as the computer heats up a bit the cable pops out of the connector on the card itself to a chorus of beeps as the card assumes all the drives just failed.

So an extension, or replacement Mini-SAS to backplanes connector would be nice, but only if I can install it easily. It just sucks that there isn't a few millimetres more on the wires that go from the Mini-SAS connector to the the bay 1 backplane, as it would fit perfectly.

However, I would prefer to put the card in slot 2 anyway, as it gets an 8x PCI link in there, opposed to a 4x, though I don't suppose it makes much of a difference.

 

[aliot]

thnking about to get a extension cable.Ya,the maxupgrade one.At the very first I think some lock down(five languages screen) was cause by snow leopard,but most of my friend said that snow leopard works flawlessly.I have to think the frequent lock down is cause by the unstable connection between ipass and raidcard.In the past year I got only 3-4 times of lock down,and I got almost onece a day since I install my raidcard.
really annoying now.

 

[nanofrog]

Hmm, I'm wondering if anyone has other solutions for this? I don't really want to go about modding a cable for this, but I have the RocketRAID 4310, and even with swapping the backplane connectors to 2, 1, 3, 4 the iPass cable only just reaches the card. As soon as the computer heats up a bit the cable pops out of the connector on the card itself to a chorus of beeps as the card assumes all the drives just failed.

So an extension, or replacement Mini-SAS to backplanes connector would be nice, but only if I can install it easily. It just sucks that there isn't a few millimetres more on the wires that go from the Mini-SAS connector to the the bay 1 backplane, as it would fit perfectly.

However, I would prefer to put the card in slot 2 anyway, as it gets an 8x PCI link in there, opposed to a 4x, though I don't suppose it makes much of a difference.

You could try to re-route the cable (i.e. remove the fan housing to access it). Additional length has been obtained this way. That said, I don't know if it would get you enough to make it to slot 2, but it's worth trying. That cable from Maxupgrades isn't exactly cheap.

 

[haravikk]

You could try to re-route the cable (i.e. remove the fan housing to access it). Additional length has been obtained this way. That said, I don't know if it would get you enough to make it to slot 2, but it's worth trying. That cable from Maxupgrades isn't exactly cheap.

Hmm, no, but it's probably my better option. I've already taken the whole iPass cable out and tried everything to get that little extra out of it, but it won't even fully reach with the card in slot 4 with the bay 1 and 2 backplane connectors swapped around. As I say it only just clicks into place, but when the computer starts up it just seems to heat up and the clip gives up and releases the cable.

Others have probably been luckier and just that extra nanometre long iPass cable or something

 

[gugucom]

Where did you get this fiber glass dummy?

Those velociraptor are actually mounted to a blank fibreglass PCI-E card that sits in slot 4 (below the GFX card) - who says there's not enough room for more drives?

Did you make this PCIe dummy yourself or did you find a source for it?

 

[nanofrog]

Hmm, no, but it's probably my better option. I've already taken the whole iPass cable out and tried everything to get that little extra out of it, but it won't even fully reach with the card in slot 4 with the bay 1 and 2 backplane connectors swapped around. As I say it only just clicks into place, but when the computer starts up it just seems to heat up and the clip gives up and releases the cable.

Others have probably been luckier and just that extra nanometre long iPass cable or something

Ouch.

Unfortunately, any cable I've ever dealt with has variances in the actual length, and you got the "short end" this time.