From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 13:57:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A05A1065670 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:57:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from resmaa14.ono.com (smtp14.ono.com [62.42.230.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A088FC16 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from GogPortatil.retena.com (188.76.3.50) by resmaa14.ono.com (8.5.113) (authenticated as nec556@retena.com) id 4E5EF2B100629B8F for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:57:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4E5EF2B100629B8F@> (added by postmaster@resmaa14.ono.com) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:57:16 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Eduardo Morras In-Reply-To: References: <4e79f205.0c74970a.09a6.ffffadbaSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <4E7CCB91.4050206@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 10.0.1410 [1520/3916] Subject: Re: Pci express ZFS card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:57:15 -0000 At 22:27 23/09/2011, Outback Dingo wrote: >On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Joseph Lenox 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.