@Arnie
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Although it has been well established that there is a PCI1x slot in line with a xorro slot I am still unclear what a xorro slot is, googling it just came up with "did you mean zorro slot" and nothing helpfull.

It looks like the board has a Xilinx FPGA chip. That chip isn't as useful if you cannot conect external things to it. Without connections you might be able to do things like swappable hardware codecs, coprocessors (I myself like the idea of implementing Altivec in an FPGA for use as an external implementation comparable to 68882 FPU, if overhead doesn't kill the idea), but most industrial types will want to connect external gizmos like motors, sensors, etc. to something, and this Xorro slot must be the pathway to that. They made it a handly slot inline with a rear panel to allow that pathway to be a plugin card shaped thing, with headers, BNC connectors, line driver chips, or anythgin else yoy can interface to the FPGA. We the Amiga community could fashion a VGA/DVIconnector fro Natami's or Minimig's graphics chips or whatever we want. Being inline with a PCI-Express slot is probably more a physical convenience than a practical connection, but with some FPGAs capable of PCI-Express, SATA, etc. who knows.

All my opinion.

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@billt

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billt wrote: @WillKar Quote: The top right corner is definitely a Mini PCI port I've been thinking it's a CompactFlash socket. I don't actually know what the white slot is in this pic but it's similar to the white one we're interested in, and different than the one labelled as mini-PCI

Yup, not MiniPCI , too narrow.
If it is the same as the one on the eBox2300, it's a just Type I/II Compact Flash socket.
Kinda makes sense, seeing as it'll be facing the front of the case (why would you want a MiniPCI facing the front?)

OK, one thing I have noticed on that picture.. where the chuff is the flash for the bootrom ?
Is it under the "Not yet ?"

Last edited by Doobrey on 03-Jan-2010 at 07:52 PM.

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I don't actually know what the white slot is in this pic but it's similar to the white one we're interested in

It if is the same then it is a compact flash socket, see http://www.embeddedpc.net/eBox2300/tabid/110/Default.aspx

Lol, Doobrey posted same thing first

Last edited by Radfoo on 03-Jan-2010 at 07:47 PM.