what 'passive backplane' should do? provide
power from PSU?
what will happen if i stick this into a normal pc?
A passive backplan can be considered a bus, i.e. the bus interconnecting all
controllers. I have e.g. the parts for an ACER500D, which had 1 card with
CPU/memory/floppy disk/comport and printerport, one card for the video, etc.
If you stick it into a normal pc, you will have a disaster.
Nico