Can anyone help with a technical query?

[unixronin]

I need to find some hardware specs — specifically, the connector pinout with supply voltages — for a Dell internal LTO-2 SCSI Tape Drive Module 1-00743-05 for a Dell Powervault tape library.  (I want to tap into the chassis connector to supply power to it directly so that I can use the module housing as an external case for the LTO-2 drive.  This is partly because the power supply in the Dell LTO-1 external tape housing I have seems to be a little marginal for an LTO-2 drive, and partly because the tape library module looks so much cooler and more industrial than the Dell external case.)

Can anyone assist with this?  So far, the STFW method has failed.  If no-one can point me at a spec, I'll have to see if I can extract one from Dell somehow tomorrow.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, worst case I guess I get to try to strip the power supply out of the chassis and start tracing. Unless I can figure out where to go at Dell to find someone who can get me the information.

Given that there IS a power supply in there, however minimal, the inference is that it does receive 120V power ... if I just knew on which pins it expects it. If it was fed standard internal +12V/+5V, there'd be no need for a power supply in there, the connector could just have a pigtail direct to the drive.