What is Universal PCI

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tommy wrote:
> I bought an adaptec sata raid card:
>
> http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/p [...] l+ATA+RAID
>
> and have an elitegroup motherboard:
>
> http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Produ [...] 22&LanID=0
>
> The problem is that I'm not too familiar with PCI slots and although
> the card can fit in to the PCI slots, the card has an extra length of
> connectors that extend past the PCI slot are would be just dangling
> there out in the open. Does this card take a special PCI slot that
> this motherboard does not have? The card requires PCI 2.2 compliant
> and the motherboard has that but I don't know about the Universal PCI
> and thought it might have something to do with the extra connectors.
>
> Thanks in advance.

It's a 64-bit PCI card, and your motherboard only has 32-bit PCI slots.
It will still work, it just won't have as high bus transfer throughput
as it could.

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