First post, by Malvineous
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Hi all,
I found a PCI-Express to 2x PCI device on DealExtreme and I'm wondering whether anyone here might know how it works?
It looks like the PCI-E card it comes with doesn't have any logic on it, but it just breaks out one PCI-E lane and puts it over a USB 3.0 cable. The other board seems to have some kind of PCI-E to PCI bridge chip on it. So I'm assuming you can't plug the PCI board into any old USB 3.0 slot.
I've seen other adapters like this one which just appear to mount a low-profile PCI card in a PCI-E slot, presumably using the same bridge chip.
If either of these are a direct hardware translation to the PCI-E bus (i.e. no drivers) does that mean you could put a PCI SoundBlaster card into a modern PC (one with only PCI-E slots) and be able to use it with SB16-compatible DOS games?