[GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux

[Cprossu]

>From the sounds of it I'd say we need to know exact hardware to continue. a
286 'made into a 486' could mean anything from a sane upgrade (swapping out
the motherboard) to an insane upgrade (like the intel inboard 386 I have
for one of my IBM 5150 PC's which uses the original motherboard and is
incompatible with darn near everything). If you are unable to get us a
model number or brand of the motherboard, see if you can snap a pic of the
motherboard. Depending on the era of 486 if it was indeed a motherboard
swap, there's a slim possibility it could have pci slots.  If you can find
out nothing else, find out if it's using 72pin or 30pin memory. The kernel
you end up using will be highly memory dependent..


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Joseph McLaughlin <jwm8351 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > The board is in an old 286 made 486 that is full sized and a digital io
> > board with maybe 5 ports (24 lines each) --- by memory.
> > I also have relay board that uses an isa board, a lpt port and a serial
> port
> >
> > I will have to digging thru my old boxes to see what Hardware I have..
> > If I could add a usb card ---- humm.
>
> Maybe. I believe there used to be ISA-based USB cards out there. Best
> place to find such a beast would be CompRenew.
>
> > Maybe a sata card!!
>
> Absolutely not. A SATA controller attached via ISA would be an amazing
> thing indeed.
>
> Although...There *may* be PCI controller cards out there that attached
> to an ISA bus. (Wouldn't that be strange...) Still, your I/O
> throughput would absolutely suck. You'd be better off using an
> IDE->SATA adapter.
>
> >
> > Could a c program compiled on ubuntu run under msdos?
>
> Using the appropriate cross-compilers, sure.
>
> > And did msdos have client server built in?
>
> No. You'd need a network card and the appropriate packet driver for
> it. For Linux, an old 3Com 3c509 would be just perfect.
>
> Really, though, it souds like you just want to be able to drive these
> I/O boards and relay controllers. The Radio Shack in Woodland Mall has
> USB versions of these for only $50. That's going to be a far, far
> smaller headache.
>
> --
> :wq
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