[Gllug] Unusual motherboard

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 04 Feb, James Roberts wrote:
> 
> Chris Bell wrote:
> > On Sun 03 Feb, James Roberts wrote:
> >> Chris Bell wrote:
> >>>    That looks ideal for a special job if I can persuade it to work, but so
> >>> far it has not managed to work with any disc.
> >    I think the second system would be most likely, and I see it is sold as a
> > Linux system. I suspect that someone may have tried to convert it to run M$,
> > hence the error message, but the floppy and two DVD drives are covered with
> > a very fine dust, so the installation failed. Attempting to boot anything
> > from either CD, DVD, or floppy fails because the drives may be faulty or
> > need a clean.
> 
> Does the board have any numbers on it?
> 
> MeJ

Found it, thanks. It is a Mercury PVCLE266M-L V1.2, and I have found info on
the Mercury website via Google. I see there is even a mention of a driver
for Linux, so it looks hopeful. A job for tomorrow.

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