RE: Mounting a couple of SBC's

["Des Gibbons" <des@xxxxxxx>]

I am getting a few of these too, if anyone in NI wants one, I will have 2
spare.

?15 each delivered to me, collect from Lisburn. (Worth it for the RS485
interface alone!)

Cheers, Des.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 01:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Mounting a couple of SBC's
>
>
> 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
>
>
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