XSAN FIBER CARD ON A QUAD G5

Guys Is there away I could use my PCI-X Fiber Channel Card on the new Quad Mac G5?
Thanks

No. It will not physically fit in the machine.
You need a PCI-Express version of the Apple Fibre Channel Card. They should be available on the Apple Store.

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I looked around the forum but I am still a little confused I guess. My question is about having 2 video cards in my G5 Quad. I just got the X1900 though I haven't installed it yet. The card in my quad right now is the GeForce 6600.
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If you put the x1900 in slot 1 and the 6600 in slot three, you will get the best performance out of the cards:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Conceptual/HWtechPCI/Articles/pci_implementation.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003937-DontLinkElem entID58
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I wonder if you can help, I have currently 2 Servers hosting 2 seperate Xraid systems. However im about to lose the one server. I am upgrading the one Xraid Lun with new Drives and i need to copy the data back on to the new LUN on the upgraded Raid from the other Raid, there is a stock shortage of Fiber Cards, otherwise i would have used an additional card, so is there anyway for me to Connect the 1 raid with the Data (1 Volume) to the server and the new Volume to copy the data over safely ? its another 3 weeks till another fiber card will arrive and getting a fiber switch for 1 transfer of data isnt an option.
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The other missing part is how the arrays are configured.
With two XServe RAIDs, you actually have four separate controllers. In your current configuration this probably means two connected to Server A and two connected to Server B.
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