Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:09:02 +1100 From: "Hallam Oaks" <mlnn4@oaks.com.au> To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Fibre channel Message-ID: <199810300808.TAA03591@mail.aussie.org>
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Hi, I'm now going to demonstrate my total ignorance of fibre channel ;) Who here can tell me what we need to set up a working fibre channel hard drive system, apart from the controller and drive ? I'm not referring specifically to FC on FreeBSD per se, but the actual hardware. I know I'd (obviously) need some fibre optic cable, but I'm unsure if you also need an external optical transciever. That is, I'm unsure if these are built into the FC hardware, or if the FC devices connect to the transcievers via some sort of standard electrical - rather than optical - interface. If so, does anyone know how much these transcievers tend to cost (low power type) ? What else is needed to have a working system ? (apart from the driver software that is ... at the moment I'm only concerned about hardware.) regards, -- Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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