I have a very large and complex rack-mounted box which contains a 14-slot ISA bus passive backplane [physically divided into 2 separate PC segments] and 12 cards of various sorts installed. The box has physical room for mounting 3 drives in the front opening in which I have a floppy and 2 removable HD frames for one of the PC's and I have internally mounted a permanent HD and made a cutout in the back panel for a floppy for the second PC in the box. Everything works well ... Until I need to attach a CDROM drive to one of the PC's. Currently I've got the cables from the secondary IDE controllers and a power cable hanging outside the box and I simply hang a CDROM drive (or a temporarily needed HD) from the cables. That's ugly and, even though it's a very low traffic area, still quite unstable and probably unsafe as well.
SO .. Does anyone know of a reasonable way to "mount" IDE internal HDs & CDROMs externally?
TIA Norm