[21049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 2U chassis (was Linux Router Kit)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Walker)
Mon Nov 2 15:33:16 1998
From: Rob Walker <rob@varesearch.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 19:18:39 -0800 (PST)
To: geoffw@precipice.v-site.net
Cc: asr@millburn.net, nanog@merit.edu, list@inet-access.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.05.9810311106530.14448-100000@precipice.v-site.net>
Reply-To: rob@varesearch.com
>>>>> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:21:25 -0800 (PST), Geoff White
>>>>> <geoffw@precipice.v-site.net> said:
Geoff> If I use a mother board that has Ultra2 scsi and 10/100 all on
Geoff> board I don't need anything else, theese are servers, I don't
Geoff> need sound cards, framebuffers, or anything else, just space
Geoff> for two 4 Gig disks
Geoff> The units that mention 5 slot passive backplanes... can I still
Geoff> put an ATX formfactor motherboard in the bottom?
The Nightshade motherboard from Intel fits this, with 10/100, scsi, 2
meg video built in.
I know I saw some L-shaped PCI / ISA cards over near one of these
chasis just the other day near a salesmans desk. This would allow for
another pci networking card. However, I don't know whether or not we
are selling them right yet. That question/answer belongs to
sales@varesearch.com.
rob
