From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 11 0:15:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01E937B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:15:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29342; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:15:30 -0800 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:15:26 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Dan Feldman Cc: David Miller , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Dan Feldman wrote: > Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but: > > What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD? > > I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible > that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own > enclosure with Cinonic cards, buy clearance 1 GHz drives, and are lucky > enough to find a very cheap used host adapter. I'm not sure this is a good > thing, since it doesn't seem like Fiber Channel is easy to set up > reliably.... Qlogic 2100 and 2200 are really the only actively supported adapters. There are some clone vendors that make this cheaper- Check out Antares. Oh- yeah- I guess you *can* get what you need for paddleboards out of Cinoninc, although my nether end puckers a bit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message