RE: Mounting a couple of SBC's

[Vince <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

The boards are PICMG and have just arrived :) There are still quite a few
left on ebay here
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=162&item=3403759257

While surfing I found a nice little project entitled "Nine systems in
6
units of rack space" here's the link
http://www.seanadams.com/backplane/

I was hoping to add these 2 SBC's to my 4U server but the bus contention is
going to stop that. Unless I tape* the edge connector and just leave the
power contacts showing, will have to try this on a old machine first. Or I
could add them both into a 1U rack?

Just plugged a 400 Celeron and 256Meg RAM into one of the SBC's and it
fires up fine :)

Time to go to bed now.

Vince

* Do not try this a home kiddies as you could fry things ;)


At 23:22 28/02/2003, you wrote:
>HI Vince,
>
>Which board format is the SBC? I assume that it is a full size PICMG
with
>the ISA bus and PCI bus too or is it a half size?
>
>You can't plug it into a standard PC as you will then get bus
contention as
>each tries to control the bus. You need to use a passive back plane.
Check
>out www.boser.co.uk as they do some low cost back planes that should do
the
>trick.
>
>I use a PICMG board for my HA server and a 6 slot PCI/ISA backplane.
>
>Dave...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vince [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 27 February 2003 00:28
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Mounting a couple of SBC's
>
>
>I picked up a couple of Celeron full size SBC cards from ebay and
wondered
>if anyone had any experience mounting them in a case. What I want to do
is
>mount them both in my servers case and wondered if I could just plug
them
>into free ISA slots on my servers motherboard to power them? Can you
plug
>these things into a normal motherboard? Or do they need a backplane.
>
>Vince