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