Re: Mounting a couple of SBC's

["Justin" <justin@xxxxxxx>]

Just so I'm clear on this, these cards can be used without a
backplane? Did you try taping the contacts Vince?
I know segmented backplanes aren't hugely expensive, but I guess they
would need a proper case and then it starts to get out of hand!

Cheers,
Justin.

P.S Anyone got any Celery CPU's for sale :-)

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Vince <groups@t...> wrote:
> 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 ;)


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