Re: PCI Slot Expansion

This will work transparently without driver modification provided the driver
makes the right OS/BIOS calls to find the device, etc.

TC

"Hui Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Murray) wrote in message
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> > >I want to design a pci board which will expand one pci slot through a
> > >pci-bridge and pci-local bus and get two slot. I wonder if there is
> > >any driver problem? say i plug a audio card into the expanded slot?
> >
> > Depends upon your softwae.  I'd expect it to work for most OSes.
> >
> > It might not for an OS designed to run on small systems,
> > say an OS for embedded systems.  It might take a special configuration
> > flag for the software to include support for the PCI Bridge.
>
> I am using windows 2000, the two PCI card I am about to use is a
> Display card and a FPGA based DSP card, they both have workable
> driver, what I wonder is if a PCI-Bridge based slot expansion card can
> make these two only ocupy one main PCI-bus slot, with out any change
> of driver.
>
> Do you know if there are any product card can do this? or any
> available design for this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Hui