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Geek Culture / Hardware question, concerning two MOBOs

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 10th Mar 2009 18:35
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Ok, so I was taking a look at my 2 old servers last night. One of them is a Dell poweredge 600sc and just uses plain old IDE drives. The other is a dell poweredge 2400 and uses a small, secondary, backplane MOBO to use a different type of HDDs,which just slide in and out.
I was looking over the servers to try and take all the best parts from the 2400, (which runs very slow and only has two 73 MHz processors) and try and use them to upgrade the 600sc.(Which runs pretty well and has a 2.4 GHz processor).
Then I had an idea;
Would it possible to use a regular IDE cable to connect the 2 MOBOs?
They both have IDE slots, so I could theoretically just plug one end of and IDE cable into MOBO A, and the other end into MOBO B. I know it is physically possible, I tried to see if it would fit. (It does.)
My question is, what would this do in terms of operation? would they act as one Frankenstein server? Would they not work at all? would they blow up?

SO, can you connect two separate MOBOs to work as one using an IDE cable? If not, can you do it with something else? IS it even possible?

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bitJericho
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Posted: 10th Mar 2009 18:36
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This would not work, and you could potentially blow out the ide controller on both motherboards.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2009 18:37
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You cant do it with the IDE. That is just for drives.
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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 10th Mar 2009 18:43 Edited at: 10th Mar 2009 18:48
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Ok, thats what I figured. Just figured I'd check.
Is there any way to do it at all?
EDIT:
I've been looking around, and it looks like what I want is cluster computing.
Anyone know anything about this?

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Posted: 10th Mar 2009 20:15
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The IDE controller will look for a harddrive but will find another IDE controller or motherboard. So to repeat what's been said already, no its impossible that way.

My question is what sort of harddrives does the 2400 use? When you say different, sliding in/out doesn't explain well. It's very possible you have standard IDE drives that have just been placed inside a removable bracket which has a connection on the back. Or you have SCSI drives which can still be used with the purchase of a scsi controller.

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Posted: 10th Mar 2009 21:02
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I'll try and upload a pic of the 2400's HDDs when I get home.

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Clustering could be a way to go, but if the second server is 2 75mhz processors, I'd say it'd be absolutely worthless setting up a cluster for that

It could be used to build a firewall, but even at that it might just be too slow.

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Posted: 11th Mar 2009 00:09 Edited at: 11th Mar 2009 00:10
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Here's a pic of the HDD for the 2400.


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Posted: 11th Mar 2009 00:11 Edited at: 11th Mar 2009 00:11
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Here's another.


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