At 22:27 23/09/2011, Outback Dingo wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Joseph Lenox <lenox.jos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would posit that it is only for use as on a PCI Express
backplane; I don't
> even see how it would fit in a standard PCI Express slot (seeing as the
> backplane connector is physically longer than the PCI Express connector).
> Moreover, the card itself looks like a system-on-a-board (a complete
> computer system on a single mainboard).
>
This is definatley a backplane SBC designed system, and will not work
in a standard motherboard, seems to me what he really wants is like an
OCZ revo drive, or Fusion IO card
I'm playing with the card, and it has a PCIe x4. I haven't tried to
put it on a server, but FreeBSD 8.2 runs perfectly (for now) on it
with 3 disks and connect by ethernet interfaces. I don' want to try
connect this card to a server PCIe x4 slot before know that it's 120%
safe. The card has 2 connectors on basement, a PCI one and a PCIe x4
but don't explain if it's host only or host-slave or slave only.
I want a raid card with zfs instead closed source hardware raid. If
raid card brokes i will need exactly the same card with the same
firmware and other minor requierements for recover the raid. Using a
zfs raidz i simply need to connect the disks to a freebsd server and
recover it.
I'll try to contact vendor again to get more info on this topic.
Thanks to both.
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