I also thought of getting a ISA to PCI converter since I can't find any pci watchdog cards that support freebsd. Anyone know any better ones?

http://www.plxtech.com/products/9050/default.htm

http://www.costronic.com/Ev71p.htm (PCI to ISA)

Need ISA to PCI converters. I am surprised to not find many of them at all.

OMG, PCI to ISA converters exist!? :eek4: (We need a surprised emoticon.) Wow, I've never seen one before! If you can find one that doesn't require me to write a driver myself, I'll be even more surprised. :)

Who cares about PCI to ISA. It seems to be impossible to find a server with isa unless it's old. What I really want is ISA to PCI. There must be millions of ISA cards out there. They should have left the ISA slots just in case =(

Wait, are you talking about ISA to PCI as in converting an ISA slot to a PCI slot or converting an ISA card to a PCI card? I was talking about converting a PCI slot into an ISA slot because ISA slots are getting really hard to find now. I have as far as I know the only DDR motherboard that has an ISA slot (Biostar M7MIA). If anyone knows any others, I'd like to know, but if not, these converters look interesting, although I'm not sure how effective they are.

I want to buy a watchdog card but it only works for ISA. So I need ISA to PCI

Then we're talking about the same thing, except I was talking about converting slots and you were talking about converting cards. You marked the second link as PCI to ISA, which is what confused me. That's a PCI slot to ISA slot converter, which lets you plug ISA cards into a PCI slot. So what I was referring as PCI to ISA is what you were referring to as ISA to PCI. Anyway, there's really no easy way to convert between the two, since they're two totally different interfaces. It's like trying to convert a Mac into an IBM compatible PC. I never knew converters existed until now. Still, I don't think it's a fool proof solution, but I haven't tried it so I can't be sure.