Thanks to all for the guidance on this. I'll probably get one in the next w=
eek or two. If I do, I'll report back my findings...

Joe
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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Richar=
d R. Pope [mechanic_2@charter.net]
Sent: 02 September 2014 09:43
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT]:PCI-E x1 to Dual PCI adapter experiences?

Hello all,
     I agree that these adapters should work fine. It looks like this
company has spent a lot of time and effort developing them.
Thanks,
rich!

On 8/31/2014 5:44 PM, peter green wrote:
> Joe McCauley wrote:
>> I'm upgrading my PC & the new system has no PCI slots. I need to run som=
e NI data acquisition PCI cards in this machine, so I was looking at one of=
 these - http://www.virtuavia.eu/shop/pci-e-x1-to-dual-pci-with-case.html.
>>
>> Has anyone used something similar? Will my OS (windows 7/8.1) see the ca=
rds? I'm going to be running them in Labview. I'm sort of stuck with this m=
achine and apart from that, PCI slots seem to be well on the way out so if =
it worked, this would be a lot better than throwing out all the PCI cards I=
 use from time to time.
> Theres no general reason why a PCIe to PCI adaptor like this shouldn't
> work. PCIe to PCI bridges are a pretty standard component which windows
> knows how to deal with (many motherboards have them onboard). The only
> question is will the corners they have cut (for example they appear to
> be abusing a USB3 cable to carry the PCIe connection) lead to
> unreliability.
>
> I haven't used such soloutions myself but I did hear from an NI guy that
> some external expansion soloutions had caused problems with their cards
> in the past.
>
> Are you being forced into a specific model of computer by an employer or
> something? Last I looked the "leet gamer" boards were generally lacking
> PCI and the smaller form factor boards tend to only have at most one PCI
> slot due to space restrictions but there were plenty of midrange ATX
> boards arround with 2-3 PCI slots.
>
>

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