On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:05:22 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: >On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:29:26AM +1000, RW wrote: >>Universal cards have two slots in the edge connector. The fact that you >>can put a card in backwards just proves that the connector layout was >>designed by somebody who would never get a job in aviation...... > >To be fair, the PCI spec encompasses the socket *and* the bracket. It's >hard to put a PCI card in backward without jamming the bracket through >the motherboard, unless you take it apart...
You and I know that. Browsing the list archives will find you people who did not. When you have a Net4801 in a case, even one of the nice Yawarra ones, you need to take off the "plank" or at least modify it so that it will fit. That's when newbies who have never noticed a 3.3v socket manage to look, for a clue, at a regular PC with a 5v only socket and make a logical error. Then the smoke pipe breaks and the smoke gets out and it's very hard to fix the leak and put the smoke back in. ;-) Rod/ Me...a skeptic? I trust you have proof. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
