From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 30 00:08:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02428 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:08:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.aussie.org (hallam.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.54.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02423 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:08:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlnn4@oaks.com.au) Received: from bigbox (dialup-b1-29.raytrace.com [203.29.75.73]) by mail.aussie.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA03591 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:08:44 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199810300808.TAA03591@mail.aussie.org> From: "Hallam Oaks" To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:09:02 +1100 Reply-To: "Hallam Oaks" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Standard (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Fibre channel Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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