[SunRescue] Salvaging a big case to use as drive enclosure?

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david at rouseworld.org writes:

>The lights that I expect to see are on, including the lights on the HDs, the
>LCD backlight, the rear power indicator lamp and all those noisy fans are
>running (two power supplies and two big fans in the case). But thanks, it is
>a good thing to check. I've also stepped through Apple's own checklist for
>this beast (found a guy who has an enthusiasts site with a bunch of pdf
>files and Apple website screen shots) to no avail.

I once had my RS/6000 fail in an intensely weird way: when I tried to power
it on, the fans would begin to spin up for about a second, then everything
would shut off. Eventually I discovered that if I pulled my tape drive
out of the chassis, even if it was still connected, everything was fine.
Apparently the tape drive failed in such a way as to short power through
the case and the power supply decided it was safer to stay off. (Well,
that's my theory anyways.)

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