On 06/16/11 09:49 am, Henry Schneider wrote:
I am attempting to set up a 5000A for the first time. The computer is an HP desktop with the required "innards." In researching a bit I have learned that the PCMCIA fireware card must be of certain vintage running a TI chip etc etc. So is this also true for the PCI card in a desktop? The PCI slots available in this HP desktop are the short ones. The only long slot is a video slot. My local Altex store has PCI cards to accommodate both types of slot. However, the price of the SHORT one is four times that of the standard long one. I have located PCI cards on the internet ( eBay ) and their price is reasonable. But will they work? I have not found anything in previous posts to this reflector that answers this question. The PowerSDR software will be this new one that is available for downloading at the Flex website. I think this Firewire cable connection between the 5000A and the computer is the next obstacle I must defeat before taking on anything else. Any help would be appreciated. Henry W5HNS
Do you mean "PCI" or do you mean "PCIe"? There were short and long PCI slots (the former being 32-bit and the latter 64-bit but probably not common except on high-end servers). Modern motherboards sometimes still have one or two 32-bit PCI slots, but will have one or more 16x (long) PCIe slots (primarily for video cards) and two or more 1x PCIe slots (for almost everything else).
I suspect that the "long" cards you are seeing are PCI and the "short" ones are 1x PCIe. If your machine has only PCIe slots, PCI cards will not fit, and you'll need a 1x PCIe Firewire card.
Newegg has a bunch of them: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=pcie%20firewire%20card&bop=And&Order=RATING&PageSize=20 but it's not always easy to find out what chip they use. As for the cable... Didn't your 5K come with a Firewire cable? Mine did. 73 Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
