RE: [cobalt-developers] computer for pci slot

["Matthew Nuzum" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was it.  Thanks for the quick response... 

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Matthew Nuzum
www.bearfruit.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobalt-developers-
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Stauber
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:03 PM
> To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] computer for pci slot
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> > A while back I would frequently see ads on e-bay for an entire computer
> > that fit onto a PCI card and could run in the slot of a cobalt or other
> > ia32 computer.
> >
> > Does anyone know what company it was that made these?
> 
> Try this: http://www.omnicluster.com/X1X/products/server.shtml
> 
> I have one of the early units which I got for evaluation. It runs fine in
> the
> PCI slot of a RaQ3i and upwards.
> 
> Mine has a 300MHz Cyrix CPU and 256 MB of memory. It also has an IDE
> connector, so you can hook up an IDE drive. Or with the proper Kernel
> module
> you could use a portion of the disk on the host server. However, you know
> how
> tricky that can get on a RaQ. ;o)
> 
> Drivers for Win2K were included and drivers for other plattforms
> (including
> some Linux distributions) were worked on the last time I checked (a year
> ago).
> 
> My goal was to put a firewall and a forwarding Email and http-proxy on the
> thing to properly secure RaQs. But I never got the thing to play it nice
> with
> the Cobalt Kernel.
> 
> > I can't remember any terms specific enough to get useful results from
> > google.
> 
> The term you're looking for would be "slotserver".
> 
> --
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Michael Stauber
> 
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