The thru-hole legs of both sockets are interfering with the shroud of the other on that board as pictured, so there appears to be no room to get at the soldertails to make the connections. If you make enough room for such separation, will there be scootch side to side in the SE/30 to fit the assembly?

IMHO it's overly complex, unless you're dead set upon keeping your PDS card stock.

The approach bbraun and I have independently developed is to de-solder the right angled (straight connector) passthru connector and replace it with a "left-angle" female socket pointing straight up. We've jokingly called this the WrongAnglePDS connector hack in PM.

I'd suggest doing something more along the lines of a cut down version of that exceedingly expensive Japanese board, forgoing the IIci Cache Slot PAL adaptation. Concentrate upon getting more standard Slots onto the SE/30 PDS in the alloted cubic. I think that's eminently doable and in no way a copy of the other card.

That said: the simple way . . .

The process is ugly, but the results are elegant and it works!

I've got three of the Asante NICs to test before starting on one. }