[mythtv-users] Need a PCI Express x1 serial adapter

[Big Wave Dave]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Preston Crow
<pc-mythtv08a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 10:52 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>> Too bad they couldn't just offset the connecter enough that you could
>> have a
>> standard PCI or a 1x card in the same space. More or less like the old
>> VESA
>> connector with an ISA slot.
>>
>> It should work, just a lack of foresight I guess, or trying to
>> eliminate
>> standard PCI eventually.
>
> This is getting completely off-topic, but I'm a little surprised that
> there isn't a PCI express card that has a PCI Express to PCI bridge, and
> a cable that goes to an external box with, perhaps, 4 PCI card slots.
> It wouldn't be the best possible performance, but most PCI cards don't
> need that much performance anyway.  The same could be done with a PCI
> Express switch, for a box with a slew of PCI Express slots.
>
They exist:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=pci+expansion+chassis

http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/index.html