That dude should have known his card was , a longer slot, not PCI.
I think he mentioned it at the beginning of the video.
The little PCIe card with the usb cable is in fact a passive PCIe link to transport the lanes (x1 to x4) to the external card that contains the active PCI-PCIe bridge chipset.
Reminds me of these SCSI to IDE bridge adapters we used on Amiga when IDE hard disk drives were way cheaper than SCSI ones.
I even had one on the SGI Indigo 2 at work.
Have you seen what those ACARD scsi -> ide interface cards go for now? like 240 USD if you are lucky. I had at least three of them and gave them away to retro computer peeps back in the oughts. Could have 900 more dollars in my paypal. It is all the old machining rigs and industrial equipment that drove the price up, things were built to run for 50 years and now SCSI2 and dsdd floppies are not worth investing in as they are all new old stock at best or refurb.
I am just going to shill hard for the again in this post. If you have old samplers/synths/CNC/whatever buy one now. Awesome little devices that make no high pitched whine and no heat.
That's exactly the one I was using.
It's not worth it anymore, especially since you can now use cheap sdcard to pata/ide/scsi bridge adapters
He mentioned PCI-e which is not the same as PCI-X.
I might have misheard then.
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