Connected
Mounted within the chassis is a motherboard ordinarily referred to as a backplane to which the drive carriers are detachably connected. In an alternate unit, which eliminates the universal receiving frame, the movable carriers are associated to one side of a backplane with in the chassis and the pull-out peripheral circuit boards are associated to the opposite side. This invention relates to receptacles by which different movable carriers having portable computer drives associated for either serial or parallel carrying out can be interchangeably received within the same chassis or warehouse enclosure so as to be interfaced with a host computer without having to make alterations to the computer drives or the chassis.
Parallel To USB Cable
Accordingly, it would be desirable to enable different movable computer drive carriers to be interchangeably inserted into the same drive bay of a chassis regardless of either the computer drive is associated for serial or parallel carrying out and without having to make alteration to the chassis or to the drive. A printed circuit board that is electrically associated to the multi-pin connector is mounted on and faces outwardly from the back wall of the U-shaped body. In this case, the integrated circuit chip on which the bridge is implemented is associated to a printed circuit board that is mounted on the back wall of carrier. The serial-to-parallel bridge is implemented as an integrated circuit chip that is associated to the circuit board at the back wall of the universal receiving frame without requiring space captivating wires or cables to be interfaced with the chassis in which the frame is located.
A corresponding plurality of pull-out peripheral circuit boards are detachably,and associated to the opposite side of the backplane so as to be interconnected with respective ones of the portable drives within the movable carriers. So as to accommodate both the serial and parallel associated computer drives. Therefor remains associated to the circuit board at the back wall of the receiving frame. In some cases, however, the peripheral circuit board may be associated to the front of backplane and then coupled to the rear by means of a cable. Depending upon how the pull-out peripheral circuit board is interfaced with hardware that is external to chassis, either a serial-to-serial or a serial-to-parallel converter is associated to the circuit board which is detachably associated to the rear of backplane. The drive interface connector is in turn, associated to a male Sca backplane interface connector that is mounted at the rear of the movable disc drive carrier. In the installed computer warehouse assembly, when the movable disc drive carrier is received within its chassis, the male backplane interface connector at the rear of carrier is detachably associated to a complementary female Sca backplane interface connector that is associated with a backplane.
Chassis
However, the number of connectors on backplane and the number of drive carriers associated there to and enclosed by chassis are optional and should not regarded as a limitation of this embodiment.
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