On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These adapters are useful only if you need some features of a PCI card > and if your mainboard has already run out of free PCI slots. Hopefully "all features" of the PCI card would be available, right? There wouldn't be any bus-mastering issues, etc? Would there be any additional issues with combining multiple ice1712 cards where some might be on PCI and some on converted PCI-e? Cards like Terratec EWS88 or M-Audio Delta claim to share interrupts when multiple cards of the same type are installed. I would imagine in a PCIe slot that might not be the case? (Or is ice1712 resource sharing across cards a windows-specific feature?) Also, the "literature" from the URLs posted earlier states: //////////////// Technical benefit: A card in the PCIe slot gets the full dedicated PCI bandwidth, one of the key benefits of the PCIe Point-to-Point infrastructure. This contrasts with a traditional PCI bus system where the card would have to share the resources with cards in the other slots, and any on-board PCI controllers, such as SATA adaptors or Gigabit Ethernet, which can be quite bandwidth hungry. //////////////// Seems like this could be an interesting solution for those suffering from graphics-card bus-contention with their soundcard. (Not me I'm running low-end mobo-integrated ATI ... but you hear about it...). The ultimate variation of the "move soundcard to a different PCI slot" solution, I guess :-) . -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
