[NCLUG] Moving exported window / ATX PS

Jeff Moe jeff at themoes.org
Tue Oct 16 21:48:40 MDT 2001


Speed & cost are the primary factors. If the PS fails, it'll be swapped out. 
It's not for a webserver. :)

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 07:49 pm, Kirk Rheinlander wrote:
> One other thing to consider: Power supplies are a relatively low
> reliability component in the computer architecture. I would think you would
> be working on how to make more than one power supply per motherboard
> instead of the other way around.....
>
> Kirk Rheinlander
>
> At 05:35 PM 10/16/2001, you wrote:
> >On Tuesday 16 October 2001 03:33 pm, M Butcher wrote:
> > > Q#2
> > >
> > > Aaeon sells industrial systems that use "CPU cards" with a "Passive
> > > Backplane." As far as I can tell, this is more or less what you are
> > > looking for...
> >
> >I looked at a number of these that were mentioned along with a few others.
> >They're definitely cool, but they ain't cheep. I would like to stick with
> > ATX for price/performance.
> >
> >For kicks I hacked the wires on an ATX power supply and put two
> > motherboard connectors on it. It workz as long as you don't mind having
> > to power them up simultaneously. I would like to track down some gear
> > that lets me measure how much the PS is drawing to see how many more
> > boards I can pile on.
> >
> > > Some of the CPU cards support DiskOnChips instead of IDE or SCSI... if
> > > that's what you are getting at when talking about "no hd".
> >
> >I was thinking netbooting--no local storage.
> >
> >Thanks to everyone for suggestions,
> >
> >-Jeff
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