Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:57:16 +0200 From: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pci express ZFS card? Message-ID: <4E5EF2B100629B8F@> (added by postmaster@resmaa14.ono.com) In-Reply-To: <CAKYr3zwmMsDn9AHBH2aC-Dt%2BF0KenmYKtiBx6Ak3yCs%2BAQzAXw@mail.g mail.com> References: <4e79f205.0c74970a.09a6.ffffadbaSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <4E7CCB91.4050206@gmail.com> <CAKYr3zwmMsDn9AHBH2aC-Dt%2BF0KenmYKtiBx6Ak3yCs%2BAQzAXw@mail.gmail.com>
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At 22:27 23/09/2011, Outback Dingo wrote: >On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Joseph Lenox <lenox.joseph@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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