Strange PCI Ethernet NIC...

Greetings to all,

During a standard every year inventory checking, i ran across a IBM Net
Vista with very unusual card. It is an Ethernet NIC with rather uncommon
PCI. Naturally, motherboard has the corresponding slot, and NIC works
properly.

Here is the picture:
http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pci6yz.gif

At first, nothing crossed my mind what that could be, since this is (i
guess) vanilla NIC, so it does not require any additional bandwidti or
power, and that Net Vista was plain consumers computer.

However, i remembered i saw that on some Gigabyte motherboardt, on 64 bit
PCI slots, though, but unfortunatly, that addition was never clarified in
any manual.

http://snipurl.com/g0o6

That "feature" is also available on GA-8EGXR-C, GA-8EGXRP, GA-8EGXR and
various other boards.

Crosspost set on csiph.networking and csiph.chips, FuT set on
csiph.networking.

TIA!

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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:24:27 +0000, Bubba wrote:

> Greetings to all,
>
> During a standard every year inventory checking, i ran across a IBM Net
> Vista with very unusual card. It is an Ethernet NIC with rather uncommon
> PCI. Naturally, motherboard has the corresponding slot, and NIC works
> properly.
>
> Here is the picture:
> http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pci6yz.gif

That looks like a graphics card to me (S3-Trio64V+ was my first clue ;-).

> At first, nothing crossed my mind what that could be, since this is (i
> guess) vanilla NIC, so it does not require any additional bandwidti or
> power, and that Net Vista was plain consumers computer.
>
> However, i remembered i saw that on some Gigabyte motherboardt, on 64
> bit PCI slots, though, but unfortunatly, that addition was never
> clarified in any manual.

Not clarified? PCI-64 is a standard. I'd have to look closer to see if
that's what it is,, but it looks like a 5V 64bit card (rather an oddball
combination).

> http://snipurl.com/g0o6
>
> That "feature" is also available on GA-8EGXR-C, GA-8EGXRP, GA-8EGXR and
> various other boards.

The connectors on that board look strange too. The 64-bit connector
portions look too big, but note that they are 3.3V (while the 32 bit
connectors are 5V).

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Keith

keith's log on stardate 04 srp 2005

> On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:24:27 +0000, Bubba wrote:
>
>> Greetings to all,
>>
>> During a standard every year inventory checking, i ran across a IBM
>> Net Vista with very unusual card. It is an Ethernet NIC with rather
>> uncommon PCI. Naturally, motherboard has the corresponding slot, and
>> NIC works properly.
>>
>> Here is the picture:
>> http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pci6yz.gif
>
> That looks like a graphics card to me (S3-Trio64V+ was my first clue
> ;-).

Umm, sorry for inconvenience, but i just Photoshoped old S3 Trio card
and NIC to show the difference...

Perhaps i wasn't clear enoguh. Here is another picture, i hope it shows
better what i had in mind...

http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?i...angepci3su.gif

>> At first, nothing crossed my mind what that could be, since this is
>> (i guess) vanilla NIC, so it does not require any additional
>> bandwidti or power, and that Net Vista was plain consumers computer.
>>
>> However, i remembered i saw that on some Gigabyte motherboardt, on
>> 64 bit PCI slots, though, but unfortunatly, that addition was never
>> clarified in any manual.
>
> Not clarified? PCI-64 is a standard.

I was not talking about that; i referred to "the extension".

> I'd have to look closer to see if that's what it is,, but it looks
> like a 5V 64bit card (rather an oddball combination).

That is a 3.3V 64bit PCI slot, however, its extension is not explained
in manual.

>> http://snipurl.com/g0o6
>>
>> That "feature" is also available on GA-8EGXR-C, GA-8EGXRP, GA-8EGXR
>> and various other boards.
>
> The connectors on that board look strange too. The 64-bit connector
> portions look too big, but note that they are 3.3V (while the 32 bit
> connectors are 5V).

Yes, but what difference would it make?


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