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32 Appendix A Bus Hierarchy 
Appendix A Bus Hierarchy 
Bus Hierarchy 
Bus Hierarchy 
The following figure is representative of the PCI Bus hierarchies for the 
7 Slot PCI Expansion System. This figure pictorially conveys the overall 
PCI bus topology of the system. 
7 Slot Topology 
In general, we do not know what the actual Bus numbers are. We only 
know how they increment starting from the host card. 
The key point in the figure of the 7 Slot topology is that the connecting 
cable between the host card and the 7 Slot backplane is actually a PCI 
bus itself. This is represented in the Windows Device Manager as 
shown below: 










