[Gllug] [OT] Building SCSI tower - a bit OT

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Wed Nov 19 00:04:50 UTC 2003


On Tue 18 Nov, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Since it won't have a mainboard it doesn't really matter.
> >>
> > Wont it have to be AT or you'd need someway of making the mb power
> > connector tell the drive power cables to power up?  Unless you put in an
> > old MB just to do the power switching?
> 
> You're right, I didn't think of that.
> 
> Cheers
> Henrik Morsing
> 
   At least some ATX PSUs only go to standby mode if one particular wire is
shorted (I think to 0volts, but would need to check). A controlled latch is
provided on the MB so that a simple push button can be used.

-- 
Chris Bell


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