Scratch Build – In Progress MINISERV

MINISERV
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Project so far:


Hi there i was bored on the weekend and was surfing trademe actions site and then i was like damn i want this mint looking unit. Won it for $25.00 NZ dollours thats $19.96 US.

A CD Tower containing 7 CD drives, built in power supply and Smart SCSI CD controller.

Manufacturer: Procom Technology
Model: C7L-32-7
Made in the USA (has 110v / 230v selector switch)

7x Pioneer slot load drives
Tower case is made from heavy duty powder coated steel.
Hinged front and hinged side panels.
Foot on the base can be adjusted horozontally out from the sides.
2 built in fans with filters.
Front door has tinted glass.

All opening covers are key lockable. High quality hinges, catches and base feet.

Height: 490mm
Width: 25mm
Depth: 350mm
Weight: 21.5kg

Outside photos:






Inside photos:








Will take sum better photos when i pick it up. and have more info about it. Dont no what im going to do with it yet have got a couple ideas.

Put a micro pc in it and have dvd drive and then harddrives and use as a files server / website host.

Piracy++ lol Piracy is Illegal. Its bad lol. But hay every one in the world does it lol.

1 hdd for movies, 1 hdd for software, 1 hdd for music, 1 hdd for websites, 1 for storage and backup drive.

dont no what the drives are if readers or writers. Will no on weekend when i pick it up. I no thay are Pioneer, Model No: DR-5065 / 32x speed.


Cannot find anthing on net about the cd tower unit apart from 1 site in japan only has one picture and hardly any information.

Ok got it today and man what a heavy sucker it is. Removed one of the drives to check model looks like only cd readersbut will be removing the other drives to day to check and clean insides. Powered it on and lots of lights and sound psu fan and rear 80mm fans all going full tit and drives all flashed and a light on the case. SWEET. So what i did next is sumthing every one would do check to see if theres any cds in it lol and gess what there was .

CD's i ejected are:
1x Farnell Connects 2002 cd - Its a Electrics conpoments shop cd have the new version of it on cd.
1x RS Components 2002 cd - Its a Electrics conpoments shop cd have the new version of it on cd.
1x Microsoft TechNet International Technical information April 2003 / Monthly viewer content. - DONT NO WHAT IT IS
1x Microsoft TechNet International Technical information April 2003 cd 1 / Monthly viewer Setup. - DONT NO WHAT IT IS
1x Microsoft TechNet International Technical information April 2003 cd 2 / Monthly viewer Content. - DONT NO WHAT IT IS

Model:
Procom Technology CD Tower PLUS
Smart SCSI CD
C7L-32-7
7x Pioneer DR 506S Internal 32x CD-ROM Drive SCSI
4x feet that rotate out to a 45 digree angle
2x 80mm rear fans with filters

Power supply is in the top of it and thats the only thing in the top dont no the Watts of it yet till i remove it.
Has a little box thing that plugs in to the back has a green led light in it and says ACTIVE on the plug.
On the back there is a SCSI ID thing press it and it changes number 1 to 7.
3 lockable doors front one has tinted window in it.

Have takin sum photos of it will upload them when i have sum photos of the insides. should be tonight

 

Have removed all the drives and thay are all the same.
The 2 80mm fans are Clifford brushless dc 12v 0.16A. 7 blade fans.
Power supply is a Seventam ST-300WHT has 6x 4 pin molex's, 2 pin plug for fans and another 2 pin plug for nothing has xternal power switch and earth cable to case.
Finished cleaning the case and looking at parts. Took sum more photos here it is.

Door open and drives


left door open


Right door open


Back of tower


2x SCSI plugs SCSI ID number thing. That panel is the only part on it thes dirty is surface rust will clean it up when i work out what im going to do.


SCSI board




The long SCSI cable with a plug on the end that say ACTIVE on it.


Other cables out of it


PSU and switch


This is the top part of the case only has the PSU in it so room in the front half of it for anthing


This is the bottom panel of the case the feet spin out to a angle or can have then round flat under case. rubber feet removed off it to clean them.


Inside the case from the bottom


Photos of the case empty












Dont no what im going to do with it yet still thinking. Did thin of installing 2x 120mm front fans and 1 fan controller and just have hdd's behind the 2 120mm fans and replace the back 2 80mm fans with 120mm fans. install a new PSU and dont no want else thing is how would i set it up so i could have the hdds in it and have it linked to my pc. Dont want to use SCSI as costly and wanting to get 500gb hdds. 2 120mm fans would be lot cheaper then 2 rack storage units.

Any idas. Im going to design couple things up on photoshop of the case thats why i toke a front and back view of the case going to take a side on photo to.

 

The feet on it look cool when thay are all sticking out will take a photo of them when i get a photo of the handles on it. Thinking about removing the 2 logos on the front top and making custom ones. Have removed the stickers of the back and removed the bottom removable tray thats got the surface rust on it to clean it up tomorrow. Was thinking sum type of grill or mesh would be cool in the front door were the tinted windows is.

USB 6 or 8 harddrives on a usb dont think it would work. Only thing i can think of is having to have a micro pc in it thats got sata's on the mobo and a sata pci card and use network have hdds sheared. Thanks what i have come up with so far. power to hdd's is easy as psu in the top of case. MMMM a USB hub would mite work like a 6 or more usb hub in the tower hooked up to the hdds and the usb cable up to the back of the case and then have a usb cable to the pc but there must be a better way to do it.

Have got sum nice round chrome handles and installed them on the doors.

The handles i used. chrome 115mm long.


The feet on it look cool when thay are all sticking out will take a photo of them when i get a photo of the handles on it. Thinking about removing the 2 logos on the front top and making custom ones. Have removed the stickers of the back and removed the bottom removable tray thats got the surface rust on it to clean it up tomorrow. Was thinking sum type of grill or mesh would be cool in the front door were the tinted windows is.

Hi everyone got me a mobo got the FB81 out of a Shuttle XPC SB81P.

Mobo is out of this:


Mobo


Mobo


Specs:

Chipset:
Northbridge: Intel 915G
Southbridge: ICH6R
Processor-Support
System Clock: 800/533 MHz FSB
CPU-Socket: LGA775
CPU-Support: Intel Pentium 4 processors for socket 775 with 800 or 533MHz FSB
Hyper threading
Expansion Slots:
1 x PCI-Express (PCI-E, 16X)
1 x 32 Bit PCI (v2.2)
IDE-Controller
Onboard IDE Controller ATA100
supports up to IDE-drives
SATA RAID-Controller
Onboard Serial ATA150 RAID Controller
supports RAID-Level 0 and 1
for up to four Serial-ATA-drives
Multimedia:
8-Channel sound
Connectors on the backpanel: 8-channel audio-out (analogous: 2x rear/front, bass/center, surround/back),
optical SPDIF-in and out, coaxial SPDIF-out
Connectors on the frontpanel: microphone, line-out (headphones)
More line-ins on the mainboard for 2x CD-ROM and AUX.
Ethernet:
Ethernet: 10/100/1.000 MBit
Broadcom 5751
Backpanel-Connectors:
1 x PS/2-Mouse
1 x PS/2-Keyboard
1 x Serial
1 x VGA
1 x RJ45 (GigaBit LAN)
2 x USB 2.0 (total 8)
1 x Firewire (6 pol.)
Connectors on the backpanel: 8-channel audio-out, line-in,
optical SPDIF-in and out, coaxial SPDIF-out
Clear CMOS-button
optional parallel port
optional Wireless-LAN-Adaptor/Antenna
Onboard-Connectors:
1 x Floppy drive
1 x IDE (ATA-100)
6 x USB 2.0 (2 for the frontpanel, total 8x USB)
2 x CDROM audio-in
1 x AUX
Fan-connectors
Memory:
2 x 184-Pin for Dual Channel PC2700 (DDR333) or PC3200 (DDR400)
unbuffered DDR SDRAM memory with 166 or 200MHz clock frequency up to a total capacity of 2GB
Hardware-Monitoring
CPU-temperature, system voltages and fan revolution
Power Management
ACPI Version 1.0 (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)
supports power saving modes: S1 (Snoop), S3 (Suspend to RAM), S4 (Suspend to DISK), S5 (Soft-Off)
On/Off-button with two functions: suspend-mode / soft-off
BIOS
Award V6.0PG PnP Green BIOS
stored in 4MBit Flash-memory chip
ATX-power supply connector
8-Pin ATX2, 6-Pin ATX1, 4-Pin ATX3
Form Factor
Micro-ATX: 20,5 x 28 cm

Also have 1gb 2x 512mb geil sticks of ram on way to me with blue heat cover on them. Going to start a project log soon will be starting to cut and change case this weekend hopfuly. Looking at getting a 3ghz HT cpu.

yeh shuttle nice and small 1 ide so 2 devices on that and 4 sata's

PSU dont no yet. the shuttle normal has a 250watt. I have a old psu here im going to use as a template psu to get sizes in case going to go with normal ATX psu about 400w or 450w so be good power to power mobo, 1gb ram, 5x hdd's, dvd drive and a floppy.

Has 1 pci slot and 1 VGA so dont no if will use them or not if not be easy as will notneed to cut 2 slots for them of use a back panel out of a pc case. Put dont no i minte want to install a SCSI controller to run couple more hdd's. or maybe a sata controller dont no yet.

Whats faster? SATA or SCSI i not thay are both faster then IDE.

Ok sum photos of what im doing.










have removed them parts will have a photo soon going to start a project log now for it.

 

Photos are getting better learning how to use my camera now and that i have a Sony 10.2mp DSLRA200W Alpha Mount DSLR Twin Lens Kit with 2gb memory card Sony bag sony tripod.

My camera small lens.


My camera big lens

 

Ok just took couple photos of the case as it is at moment.





This is my plan on what to do so far will get painted and that. Maybe a top fan or vent to. Fast photoshopping

Front window replaced with mesh. uv lights behind the door.


Back panel. 120mm silent uv fan exhaust.

 

Cool, I will follow this one

 

Ok stripped apart the psu that was in this and going to use the psu as a dummie psu. Use the molex plugs with wires as xtra parts.


This is the Icute s901-5g1-bb case cad design i have changed the psu hols to make it easy to make. If any one wants the Icute s901-5g1-bb case cad design i have it to scale all sides.


Have drawn up template for psu hole and doing the mobo o/i pci template at moment. Going to have a look on net today see if i can find a old pc case to get the rear panel thats got the i/o hole and 2 pci slots in it to use in case if i dont make my own one.

Going to get sum parts this week like metal panels and rods.

 

Going to make a 5.25 to 3.5 converter to hole the hdd's using 4 5.25 bays should get like 6x 3.5 hdd's in it. just got to work out the size of it and hole spacing.


or like this:

 

I like the second one..
And for the holes on a HDD there is 101.5mm center to center

 

Yehh doing 2nd 1 have made up a cardboard test one at moment looks good and going to work. thanks is that the size hole to hole on the harddrive? thanks if it is i have to work out how high i need to make the hose for the hdds i think i will get 5x hdds in it got to work it out i have 2x hdds at moment so i can get sizes off them. and how close i can have the drives. got the shuttle mobo today mmmmm drools looks nice and got the 2 hdd's still waiting on ram to turn up should be here tomorrow. just got to sort out what psu and cpu and get cables. will get the other hdds later and the dvd and floppy drive. Will upload couple photos of the mobo soon.

Mobo:






2x Seagate 10gb hdds. (Brand New removed out or 2 xboxs. Yeh got the xboxs.)

 

Ok downloaded the user manual for the board and now no where everthing is on the mobo the power. restart, power led and hdd led are on the black plug at the end of the mobo side the cpu socket.

Page from user manual.


Got to try work out what is what this is what i have so far.


Dont no were the power LED / light is and dont no were the earths are for them all. do sum more looking in manual and net tonight to see if can find out.

User manual downloaded from here.
http://global.shuttle.com/download03.jsp?PI=82&PL=3

 

Concerning hte HD dimensions, check out the last two pages of the document at this link. ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/SFF-8301.PDF

 

Yes it is.

I measured i little and 26.1mm center to center in height between 2 harddrives is MINIMUM.
I think I would have had made atleast 28mm center to center just to get som clearance.

I like where this is going, looks really promising..
Here, have some stars

 

kool will look at link today. got my ram today and looking at ordering psu and dvd drive one of the short drives like a ASUS or Pioneer dont no yet.

Thanks JAxen yeh 28mm sounds better so not touching and tiny more air flow. Thanks for starts.

 

Installed ram into mobo tonight and removed the 5.25" bay panels out of case mobo fits nicely in the bottom 5mm room down the sides if the mobo to the case and about 15mm at end of mobo and case.

Ram installed. 1gb


Case empty ready to start getting sizes for the metal im going to get.


Had a look at that link thanks got sum sizes but only had the 2 outer side holes im going to be using the to that are closer to gether on the side of the hdd i measured and got 41.5mm center to center.

 

Interesting! I'd go with the second HD converter. *subscribed*

 

Yeh doing the second HD converter. just trying to work out what psu i need as the mobo is not a 20 or 24 pin its got 8-pin ATX2, 6-pin ATX1, 4-pin ATX3 power plugs on the mobo. strange or what.

Picture of were the plugs are:


User manual for board look on pages 16 of 81, 25 of 81, 38 of 81

http://global.shuttle.com/download03.jsp?PI=82&PL=3

 

im interested in watching this one, and im jealous of your find. im constantly trolling the for sail adds but never seem to have much luck.

what are you going to do with all your left over burners?

 

Shuttle SB81 FB81 red 4-pin ATX3 connector = floppy power connector

Looks like yer have ta meik yer own converter out of an ATX extension cable. Shouldn't be too difficult, you have the pin assignments there on page 38/81. As for the ATX3 connector, I don't understand why they didn't include a pin-out on that one as well! *shakes head*

Perhaps google is our friend? *googling*

After _A-L-O-T_ of searching all over the darn intarwebs, I found this informative thread at X-bit labs.. scroll down to the large post by user Hammer_Time, the one with the large + bold font quotes (it's about two thirds down):
http://www.xbitlabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4914&sid=056a70ddfcada6f1423e2f89242abc75
So the mysterious ATX3 connector is apparently just a plain floppy power connector, and you only have to connect it if using a PCI-e (GFX) card. =)

[side note]
Also, I found a pic of what ships with the Shuttle XPC SB81P case, and there you can see the 4-pin molex/floppy power splitter cable. Shuttle should really have included some info about it in the manual and/or labeled it PCI-E PWR or something like that, perhaps even making the floppy power connector red as well. *sigh*

[/side note]

Good luck! ^_^

 

Thanks man will have a look at link after work. not going to have a floppy drive so thats one less thing have to worry about. and not having a GFX card or other pci card. makes it even more easyer. Think if i was to get a atx psu with 120mm fan so is silent modify it say i can get the plugs with pins from my electrics shop.