Please do report findings!  I have an Audio Precision analyzer with a=20
PCI card and an ancient XP machine that exists solely to run it very=20
occasionally.  Would love to get it on the newish 'real computer'.  A=20
USB retrofit/adapter from Audio Precision is $350, oucha grumble.

Cheers,
J


Joe McCauley wrote:
> Thanks to all for the guidance on this. I'll probably get one in the
> next week or two. If I do, I'll report back my findings...
>
> Joe ________________________________________ From:
> piclist-bounces@mit.edu [piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Richard 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 some 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=20
cards? I'm going to be running them in Labview. I'm sort of stuck with=20
this machine and apart from that, PCI slots seem to be well on the way=20
out so if it worked, this would be a lot better than throwing out all=20
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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