Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:20:30 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Hallam Oaks <mlnn4@oaks.com.au> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fibre channel Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810300208300.2196-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <199810300808.TAA03591@mail.aussie.org>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Hallam Oaks wrote: > 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.) Check out the following URLs. One of them should have the info you're looking for. http://www.fibrechannel.com/ http://www.seagate.com:80/support/disc/papers/fibfs.shtml http://www.seagate.com:80/support/disc/papers/fibp.shtml http://www.seagate.com:80/support/disc/manuals/67496a.pdf -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The Art and Science of Electronic Business <http://www.scient.com>; cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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