[mythtv-users] EPIA fan noise ?

[Adam Wood]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Maarten van den Berg
> Sent: 03 August 2004 10:06
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] EPIA fan noise ?
> 
> On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:29, Adam Wood wrote:
> > > Maarten wrote:
> > > >On Monday 02 August 2004 23:59, Gert van der Knokke wrote:
> > > >>Maarten wrote:
> > > >>>On Monday 02 August 2004 18:59, Stephen Tait wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > It is true that Request/Grant is unique per device. Though not all
> > > devices need Request/Grant, it is only needed for "Bus Mastering"
> > > peripherals. Of course, most high performance devices  (ethernet, IDE,
> > > VGA, and I am going to assume Video capture cards) do need it to
> achieve
> > > decent performance. The 2nd slot should be perfectly useable for a
> UART
> > > or Parallel port card:)
> 
> Agreed on all parts.
> 
> To clarify, I shouldn't have said a two slot PCI riser card doesn't exist.
> One has to differentiate between a passive risercard and an active one.
> An
> active one incorporates a true PCI-PCI bridge and thus can accomodate a
> full
> PCI bus, i.e. four slots or even more on a single risercard.  I did not
> know
> before the research I did yesterday that this actually existed (outside of
> motherboards of course).
> 
> > > Tim
> >
> > I'm certainly no PCI expert but I have a generic 2 slot PCI riser, at
> least
> > that's how it was sold to me, and it runs my PVR-250 and Nova-t cards
> fine
> > on an EPIA-M 10000. I'm just wondering if anyone who thinks it doesn't
> work
> > has tried it. It sounds like I'm not the only one with success.
> 
> Hm.  Strange indeed,  Does it have any visible chips on it ?  If so, it is
> very likely an active card (see above).
> 

It could well be, next time I'm poking around in the box I'll have look for
chips. I don't recall any I have to say but it's not exactly the type of
thing I would remember. ;-)

Adam