On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:22:45PM -0500, Linux Rocks! wrote: > What about MCA <shivver!>
Let's leave that one dead, shall we? > we wont mention the oddball ones like std-32 or pc104.... PC-104 was an ISA bus in a pinheader format. If you can imagine the 3.5 drive adapters designed to connect a 3.5 drive to a 5.25 floppy cable, you can imagine the thing which is done by PC-104. Basically, you get a pin header instead of a card edge socket. If memory serves, you could just literally crimp a ribbon cable to connect a normal ISA card to a PC-104 connector. It was small and easily embeddable, but not proprietary. PC-104+ required a slightly more complex interface because you need to route the PCI channels as necessary (which any FlexATX PCI riser can do) and also connect to a miniPCI connector, which is far more compact than standard PCI. It's also generally too fast for a ribbon cable. But again, the connector is not exactly proprietary, so it's doable. Note that miniPCI the PC104+/embedded system connector probably has very little in common with the miniPCI card form factor used for optional 802.11 in many modern laptops. The miniPCI connector in question is probably too thick for use in a laptop and is four-pin-wide. IIRC, the laptop connectors are similar to PCMCIA in their pin size. Do not know about the other standard. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
