On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:45:32PM +1000, RW wrote: >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.
So is that the fault of the people who designed the connector, or the people who designed the board & case? (Again, to be fair, the early soekris docs suggest that the PCI slot wasn't really intended to be used with arbitrary cards, only to add more choices of fixed configurations; only its popularity with hobbyists has lead to the problem.) Mike Stone _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
