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Anyone remember an i960 board?

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I have come across the following beast in an old Micron Netframe 3100:

i960board.jpg


Does anyone have any experience with these? I am assuming that it is one of the final co-processor boards Intel made chips for?

Anyway, reason for asking is that with the board in place, the machine refuses to boot. Without it, the machine boots fine. Looks like EDO Ram in the slot, which could be bad, but I am wondering whether I really need it. I am swapping out the existing Deschutes PII-350 for a pair of Katmai PIII-550Mhz whoppers! But you know what it's like when you want to get every ounce of performance out of an old beast... what does it do, would it make the machine faster?

The Micron is built like a tank and I plan to use it as a webserver running Ubuntu. Anyone have any comments?

Thanks!
 
Why are you wasting time with this crap when you can build a Linux box very cheap and much faster now.
 
I am wasting my time with it because it's kinda fun to take a bunch of parts and make a machine that works.

I ended up not using this card as I worked out that it's probably the RAID component of the onboard Symbios SCSI controller. I had a Mylex DAC960P in the basement which has the same i960 chip on it. I put that into the Micron, flashed the BIOS on the RAID card to the latest version and then connected up the RAID backplane and everything showed up as I hoped. A great result. Gonna see if I can pick up a handful of better SCSI drives for about $20 than the 4Gb drives in the machine and it should give good service for a few years
 
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