Re: 4/600 motherboard in a standard (non-sun) VME case

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:00

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In <82s8gm$ann$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> "George Adkins" <gwadkins@nospam.erols.com> writes:

>If I wanted to operate a 4/600 motherboard as a single-board computer, (as
>in with no other VME boards as components) would a standard VME chassis
>provide appropriate power and grounding to the correct terminals on the Bus
>Connectors to get it up and running?

I've got a 4/6x0 board running SunOS 5.6 (soon to be 5.7 when I upgrade and
patch the kernel) in an old Sun 3/110 3-slot deskside tower case. Since I'm
not using the VME bus, the only connector which does anything is the power
connector, and the other two just sit there looking pretty holding the board
against the backplane.

I suspect you could even run a 4/6x0 in single-board mode in something like
a 3/60 case if the power supply was up to the task! Or a 4/110 desktop case.
I'm not sure about any non-Sun cases as Sun's VME (9-unit high cards) wasn't
the same as standard VME (which used 6-unit high cards I believe).

Regards,

Craig.

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Subject: Re: 4/600 motherboard in a standard (non-sun) VME case
Date: 1999/12/12
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