{"id":86,"date":"2008-05-22T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-05-22T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T15:15:25","slug":"converting-powermac-g4-to-2u-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/converting-powermac-g4-to-2u-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting PowerMac G4 to 2U Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2ug4server.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87\" title=\"2U G4 Server\" src=\"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2ug4server-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It worked out fairly well and we had a couple of these running for several years.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/converting-powermac-g4-to-2u-server\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Converting PowerMac G4 to 2U Server<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colocation","category-hardware","category-servers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.networkjack.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}