From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 8 12:58:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1ED37B6D4 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:57:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19550; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:57:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:57:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fibre Channel "Hardware" List... In-Reply-To: <3A83051F.C40CDA96@tn.utwente.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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