[geeks] CP1500 Marathon box...

[Matthew Poertner]

Here's a link to a pic of the box with everything pulled out.

http://www.poertner.net/~matthew/cp1500.jpg

Notice the connector on the backplane for the top slot compared to the
other two slots.   You can see the solder joints on the board but part
of the connector is missing for the bottom two slots.  Some of the
boards I see on ebay look like they need the missing part of the
connector.... Hope that makes sence.

Theres also another "hidden" slot in the back if you take the case
apart.  But there wouldn't be anyway to mount a card in there - It's
not really a sot, just the connector.

Yeah,  jumpstarting is nice if you understand it.  I seem to always
have trouble with it.  Plus I don't always have an extra machine
around to do it with.

Thanks for the info guys!
Matt



On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:08:49 -0500, Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:

> I've got one of these too, and  it's great, except i think the power
> supplies are too small for the seagate cheetah's that i wanted to put in
> it.  You could get another chassis, but it will probably cost you quite
> a bit.  It also has two cPCI slots empty in it, not just one (at least,
> mine has two).  What cards on ebay do you not think match it?
> 
>
> You can get cPCI zynx quad-ethernet cards off of ebay pretty cheaply
> from time to time.  It won't be worth the money/effort to get external
> SCSI, and besides, jumpstarting is a great way to go!
> 
>     -Dan Sikorski
>