<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Preston Crow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pc-mythtv08a@crowcastle.net">pc-mythtv08a@crowcastle.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 10:52 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:<br>
> Too bad they couldn't just offset the connecter enough that you could<br>
> have a<br>
> standard PCI or a 1x card in the same space. More or less like the old<br>
> VESA<br>
> connector with an ISA slot.<br>
><br>
> It should work, just a lack of foresight I guess, or trying to<br>
> eliminate<br>
> standard PCI eventually.<br>
<br>
</div>This is getting completely off-topic, but I'm a little surprised that<br>
there isn't a PCI express card that has a PCI Express to PCI bridge, and<br>
a cable that goes to an external box with, perhaps, 4 PCI card slots.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>You mean like this? ;-) <br><br><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica">CGS-1PCIe4X PCI Express to Quad PCI Slots
Expansion Box <br></font><a href="http://www.cooldrives.com/1popcto4xpci.html">http://www.cooldrives.com/1popcto4xpci.html</a><br><br>I found this about a year ago when I was looking for something else... It would be more attractive if the price wasn't so high... <br>
<br>J-e-f-f-A <br></div></div>