[geeks] Back cover for Octane

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Thu Mar 28 17:47:10 CST 2002


> > I'm considering selling my PCI cardcage for the Octane.  If I do, I'll
> > need a cover to put in it's place.  Does anyone have a spare?
> >
> > Also, can anyone think of a *good* reason for me not to sell my PCI
> > cardcage?
> 
> PCI SCSI cards?  Perhaps a 3rd party SDI board (which can be used with
> a bridge to talk firewire)?  I'd hang onto it, unless money is extremely
> tight.
> 

Just as background, it's my personal home workstation.  

I don't have a single firewire device anywhere in the house - and can't
imagine that I'd be getting one.  While some digital cameras do talk
firewire, it seems (to me anyway) that talking to digital cameras is
better left up to the windows laptop (now used by Karin).

The Octane has a rompin' SCSI controller, so a PCI SCSI card wouldn't be
necessary - for me anyway.

FDDI or FCAL?  Maybe.  I don't, however, have any current plans for
either.

Is there anything particularly interesting or cool that can be done with
that card cage and commodity PCI cards?

Kurt



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