Re: Re: Mounting a couple of SBC's

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

I bought one of these after the posting.  Its basically a stanalone bx
board
with buit in vga and networking without the backplane.  You need to plug an
at PSU into it and memory and a celeron skt 370 and off it goes.

To get isa or pci ports you need the back plane if I understand it
correctly.  Not invertigated it too far yet but it doesnt seem to have a
sound card.  (havent found the header for one yet).  The expansion slot
plate (if thats what its called) has vga/lan/com1 and ps2 ports.  Theres
usb
headers, and most other standard motherboard connectors on the board.

I'll pop an introduction of it with some pictures to mark if any one is
interested.

Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin" <justin@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Mounting a couple of SBC's


> 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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