Strange PCI Ethernet NIC...

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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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