Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:57:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" <A.Dergatchev@tn.utwente.nl> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fibre Channel "Hardware" List... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102081256180.5534-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <3A83051F.C40CDA96@tn.utwente.nl>
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Andrei A. Dergatchev wrote: > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Oh, yeah, about this, 2300 support is comint "real soon" -this will be 2GBit. > > [my perhaps poorly worded question] > > > > > About the 2Gb drives, sorry! I have no clue as yet about this! > > Sorry for the confusion, I meant drives capable of 2 Gbit/s, > which the 2300 will supposingly support. My question was > that many enclosure support 1 Gbit/s, right ? So, I was > wondering have you heard about those which support 2 [Gbit/s] ? I've heard that Ancor has one. I think that Brocade has one too. I have had access as yet to neither. > Because one do need to have something in between the 2300 card > and Cheetah-4 FC drive, right :-) ? Adapter in a case of 1 drive > only, I presume, and enclosure in the case of multiple drives. Yes. I have no idea who is, as yet, building enclosures with 2Gb interfaces either. This is much like Ultra3- it took at least a year after Ultra3 came out (with disks ready to go) to find a JBOD that would be Ultra3 to the JBOD itself. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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