[Soekris] 4801 disk performance / pci slot

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2006/12/30 12:50, Johannes Plunien wrote:
> > That's the wrong way to plug it in. The correct way is to have the
> > soldered plug where the metal of the case is; i.e. remove the metal
> > spine from the card, and make a hole in the net4801 case for the
> > port.
> >   
> just to be sure that i wont destroy my box i made some photos. On
> picture [1] you can see the pci slot of my box. All plugs (eth0-eth2,
> power, serial, ...) are on the right side of the box, as usual. The gap
> is on the right side of the pci slot. My isdn card has 2 gaps as you can
> see on picture [2].

Good, that's keyed for universal (3.3v or 5v) signalling.

> So this is really the right way to plug in the card?
> I'm confused because on a 'normal' PCs pci slot i would plug the card in
> like on picture [3]
> 
> [1] http://www.pqpq.de/temp/soekris/DSC00060.JPG
> [2] http://www.pqpq.de/temp/soekris/DSC00063.JPG
> [3] http://www.pqpq.de/temp/soekris/DSC00062.JPG
> 
> sorry for the bad quality of the pictures... And please dont get me
> wrong, i just want to be sure and not to destroy my box :)

As in picture [2]. Here's an example:
- http://soekris.kd85.com/images/tn/DSC02718.JPG.html