[rescue] Okay, I give up (RS/6000 console cable)

[Eric Webb]

On Friday 12 April 2002 04:45 am, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > > Sweet.  Will that work in here?  I thought it expected the framebuffer
> > > to plug into that weird connector on the system board.
> >
> > yours is in fact an MCA based RS/6000, yes?  if so, it _should_ Just
> > Work(TM).
>
> Not necessarily.  That machine has a PowerPC 601 Local Bus slot for video.

Yeah, isn't the video card in that one mounted separately from the MCA card 
cage area, like somewhere in the middle of the case but on top?

What's preventing him from yanking the existing  card out and just slipping 
it into a regular MCA slot?  Or worse yet attempting dual-head?

(I'm assuming the two slots on the side are regular MCA.)

-E.