Old AST Manhattan v5090

[Jason]

Hello all,

If i posted to the wrong group then i appologize and would appreciate the
more appropriate group to post to.

I have this old AST Manhattan v5090 Chassis Model 1003. There is nothing in
it but a few left over parts. I wanted to know if this dinosaur is
repairable. Looking through the web on how to go about this and I found
nothing but memory upgrades for this model. I don't have a motherboard or
any drives for it at all. The tower is definately a server. After opening
up the system cover i saw a place for a motherboard should be. It has 8
backpanel slots and it almost looks as if there is room for 6 cd-rom bays or
3 DAT bays. They are double size. I'm not new to the Internet or computers
but a mere beginner at building machines or servers. Can anyone guide me
toward the right direction or any info on this chassis?

-Jay

[Neurosplat]

I've had a couple of these Manhattan servers. The system board had a
riser card that housed the CPU and system memory. One model has the
backplane you mentioned. For information about this system, check out
www.ari-service.com. You can search for your specific model by AST part
number (501500-501, for example). There you will find what you are really
looking for, including some ugly line drawings of the case and system
boards.

The six spaces were for hard drives, which needed to be mounted in a
special bracket, the edge card of which fitted into the slots on the SCSI
backplane. We tried to order extra brackets, but could not seem to find
them in stock anywhere, which seriously limited it's usefulness. On
another model, drives were simply mounted with rails and attached to a
SCSI cable.

I do not know if an off-the-shelf system board would even fit the case...
It would be great if it did. It's a nice housing for multiple high-speed
hard drives because you can space them out to prevent overheating.

Good Luck

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