Okay, so this does not support booting from the card but does that mean I can put the everything except the /boot partition on this?
If not then can I put /home, /etc/, and /usr on the card to speed up the load time of applications?
You can put some of those directories on the ioXtreme/ioDrive. You just can't put your MBR (master boot record), Grub/LILO, /boot kernel, initrd, /etc on it. The problem under Linux is that you have to have the fio-driver loaded before you can access the ioDrive -- and the driver is a module that gets loaded *after* boot time.
Just to reiterate -- you can't put anything on the ioXtreme/ioDrive that is needed during boot or the early init scripts. If you really want to optimize things it will turn into a science project to discover the minimal /bin and /usr/bin that you need on your boot disk -- and then once the fio-driver is loaded switch /bin and /usr/bin over to the ioXtreme/ioDrive.
John Cagle, HP BladeSystem, IO Accelerator