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The problem is: I have a miniPCI card that I need to attach to a motherboard that only has an PCI-104 connector available for expansion. So i found an adapter that is a PC/104plus to MiniPCI adapter. My questions are:

  1. Is PC/104plus compatible with a PCI-104 connector? (I will not be attaching anything else to it). I read wikipedia article which is clear that you can put PC/104 on PC/104plus. It also says that all of PC/104 , PC/104plus and PCI-104 use PCI bus, but it is not clear if I can attach a PC/104plus to a PCI-connector.
  2. And if the above is yes, does it matter that is is not on a standalone stack with its own SBC but just a connector on a motherboard of an embedded PC?

EDIT: As many pointed I misread about PC/104 and it is NOT working with PCI bus, so please ignore it. But it does not change my question because the connector is PCI-104 and the expansion card is PC/104plus which does work with PCI.

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Can you please add a link to the adapter that you found? – Pablo Maurin May 8 '12 at 10:05

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You say that all three standards use the PCI bus, but the wikipedia article states that PC/104 bus uses the ISA bus, PC/104-Plus supports both ISA and PCI and PCI/104 supports only PCI bus.

From the PC104 website, the difference between PC/104-Plus and PCI/104 is that the AT & XT (ISA bus) connectors have been removed for increased board real-estate.

So the answer appears to be yes, they are compatible since the 4 X 30 PCI interface connectors are identical.

Connect Tech, amongst others, make standard PCI adapters which support both PC/104-Plus and PCI/104 cards with the same interface socket.

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Your second link is to a device that allows a PC104 or PC104 Plus card to be used in a PCI slot on a normal computer, not something that grafts PCI functionality on to a PC104 motherboard. – AngryEE May 8 '12 at 12:13
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@AngryEE - Yes, the OP asked about compatibility between PC/104-Plus and PCI/104. I included this link as an example that this is the case. PC/104 is not inluded since it uses a separate pair of connectors which emulate the AT & XT connectors of the PC-ISA bus. – MikeJ-UK May 8 '12 at 12:47
Ah, too many hard to read characters. My eyes and brain are failing me. – AngryEE May 8 '12 at 12:52

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