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Title: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: Amigamia on June 02, 2010, 06:59:36 PM

Hi everyone,

This is a shot in the dark but I wanted to give it a try and ask your opinion. Where I work we have several of these cards:

http://www.compucanjes.com/prod_images/0000013970_1.jpg

It is a Compaq Remote Insight Board Lights-Out Edition II. It is a full blown computer with it's own Video/Mouse/KB/Ethernet/Power connectors but on a PCI card (Remember the Siamese PCI Amiga prototype?). If you look closer you can see a PowerPC 405GP CPU, an ATI Rage XL chip for the video, an XLINK Spartan Chip XC2S150 and a few ribbon cable connectors which I am not sure what they are. I remember reading online about some steps used to load a version of redHat linux on those cards. Could such a card be used to install AOS 4 or MorphOS on it?

I'll try to take some better pictures as soon as I can.

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: Piru on June 02, 2010, 07:02:43 PM

No

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: outlawal2 on June 02, 2010, 07:34:00 PM

Not a chance...

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: Amigamia on June 02, 2010, 07:54:01 PM

Quote from: outlawal2;562586

Not a chance...

 Curiosity sparked the question and I know It was a long shot. Oh well! Back to overpriced obsolete hardware as an option.

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: redrumloa on June 02, 2010, 09:28:16 PM

Quote from: Amigamia;562591

Curiosity sparked the question and I know It was a long shot. Oh well! Back to overpriced obsolete hardware as an option.

I wouldn't exactly called 2nd hand PPC Macs overpriced.

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: Amiga_Nut on June 03, 2010, 12:13:45 AM

Quote from: redrumloa;562601

I wouldn't exactly called 2nd hand PPC Macs overpriced.

I would :)

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: Arkhan on June 03, 2010, 12:20:32 AM

Hey your avatar is a magic drop shoop!

:D

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: Matt_H on June 03, 2010, 02:59:47 AM

Quote from: Amiga_Nut;562615

I would :)

This shouldn't exactly break the bank (http://www.macofalltrades.com/Apple_Power_Mac_G4_1_25GHz_DP_MDD_2003_p/g4125dpmd1.htm).

Title: Re: Could this card be used for MorphOS or OS4?
Post by: countzero on June 03, 2010, 03:49:04 AM

Quote from: Matt_H;562623

This shouldn't exactly break the bank (http://www.macofalltrades.com/Apple_Power_Mac_G4_1_25GHz_DP_MDD_2003_p/g4125dpmd1.htm).

I thought Morphos only worked on MacMini's ? :afro: