Re: PCI hardware

[vinai <4_usenet@yahoo.com>]

You should be able to use the network card just fine in your 7600.  The
only PCI cards that are cross-platform compatible are those that are
needed for booting, such as video cards and hard drive controllers. The
PCI specs are platform independent, so once you have the drivers for a
given card for a give OS, you should be able to plug the card into any
machine with a PCI slot.  That was the whole point of PCI, after all ...

With the newer, faster flavours of PCI (PCI-X, etc) there might be some
incompatibilities.  I've already heard rumblings about the new Apple G5
machines only being able to use 3.3V "PCI" cards. But they run on a new
flavour of PCI, and won't be able to use the older (5V) PCI cards.

The old ixMicro TV cards worked in both PCs and Macs, and I am using a
1394 PCI card right now in my 8500 that is usable in both x86 and PPC
machines.  I suspect that once you find the right driver, your RealTek
card should work just fine in your 7600.

cheers

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On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, [iso-8859-1] Björn Söderqvist wrote:

> Hello!
> Can powermacs use PCI cards built for PC? I have a 7600/132 and a
> Realtek 8139 NIC, it would be fun to use two networks so I could use the
> computer as a router.
> I guess that PCs and Macs use different PCI standards, and holy smoke
> will come out of the mac if I put the card in.
> This one is probably a really simple question but I haven't found the
> answer when searching the net.
> Thanks,
> Björn Söderqvist
>
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