Magma P13R User Manual
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Appendix A Bus Hierarchy
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Appendix A Bus Hierarchy
Bus Hierarchy
The following figure is representative of the PCI Bus hierarchies for the
Magma Expansion System. This figure pictorially conveys the overall
PCI bus topology of the 13-Slot System. In this example, the Magma
Host Card is the 1
Magma Expansion System. This figure pictorially conveys the overall
PCI bus topology of the 13-Slot System. In this example, the Magma
Host Card is the 1
st
PCI Bus. This PCI Bus is never visible to the
Windows Device Manager or the Apple Profiler. The connecting cable to
the Backplane is the 2
the Backplane is the 2
nd
PCI bus, and the PCI Slots represent the 3
rd
and 4
th
Buses on the 13-Slot Backplane. Any of the Magma Host Cards
can be used interchangeably with this Magma Expansion System.