PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots. And yet, that needn’t be the case. As [Peter] shows us, you can work around this with a cheap hacky hack. Our favorite kind!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/02/01/cheap-hack-gets-pci-x-card-working-in-pci-slot/