[rescue] sun UltraEngine AXe questions..

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>
>Date: Wed Jun 01 00:11:27 CDT 2005
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] sun UltraEngine AXe questions..

>On Tue, 31 May 2005, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>>> came with 512megs of memory , 40gig hd, cdrom drive, 300mhz processor
>>> and 2 usuable PCI slots in a 1U chassis...
>>
>> Uhm, 2 PCI slots in a 1U case? That's odd...
>
>Not so much.  My guess is that the slots are opposed, with a riser
>between them, as there's just not a lot that'd get in the way on an AXe
>board.

The AXe MB was designed with an eye towards 2U cases, and ships with a PCI 
adapter to run one PCI card parallel to the MB in such a case. A 1U case could 
introduce airflow issues (I imagine) and the riser boards to put two PCI 
boards in the case would be third-party parts (though standard)...

Remember, I said "odd" not impossible ;^)