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May 22nd, 2008

Converting PowerMac G4 to 2U Server

Many years ago, before there were Xserves, in an attempt to save rack space in our cabinets, we experimented with ripping the guts out of a PowerMac G4 and stuffing them into a 2U server case. Here is a photo of one of those attempts:

It worked out fairly well and we had a couple of these running for several years.

The main piece to the puzzle was finding the right L riser card to give us access to the AGP slot and 2 of the PCI slots, one for a secondary Ethernet card and another for an ATTO SCSI card.

Posted by Brian Blood as Colocation, Hardware, Servers at 10:15 AM CDT

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