LSI Logic Fibre Channel PCI Card

I have an Xserve PowerPC G5 Dual 2.3GHz (mid 2005).  Have LSI Logic Fibre Channel PCI Card installed (Product: LSI7202XP). 
My question: Can this Fibre Channel PCI Card be installed in a Apple xServe (Early 2008) - 2.8 GHz Xeon Quad-Core?  Any info will be greatly appreciated.
-jason

I think there is. It is hard to believe that ~200MB/s read comnpared to 0,7MB/s write speeds are a feature rather than a bug/problem.
I haven´t tested the used xserve with another xraid, I used different server for the Xraid benchmarking.
Message was edited by: Janne Ikola

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