[Soekris] Soekris and PCI cards. Was Re: Soekris and Soundcar d

[Stephen Patrick]

There are 2-slot risers, both active and passive
Depends on the motherboard and cards, but can be done.
[have built such systems myself using x86 non-soekris miniITX motherboards,
works fine]

http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=26_122 

Regards

Stephen Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Stone [mailto:mstone+soekris at mathom.us] 
Sent: 14 March 2007 15:03
To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
Subject: Re: [Soekris] Soekris and PCI cards. Was Re: Soekris and Soundcard

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:12:43AM -0400, Andy Michaels wrote:
>For the "Y" adapter issue, you might be able to get away with using a 
>PCI riser card, but I don't think so.  the riser cards I've seen all 
>require separate connections for each riser card slot such that there's 
>a
>1:1 relationship between riser card slots and motherboard slots.  
>That's just my experience.  someone else may have discovered otherwise.

You can get a PCI bridge which would allow multiple cards to plug into a
single slot, but I suspect that you'll run into power issues on the soekris
if you try to do something like that.

Mike Stone
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