From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 30 02:21:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA14582 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:21:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rgate2.ricochet.net (rgate2.ricochet.net [204.179.143.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA14577 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:21:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: from mg130-075.ricochet.net (mg130-075.ricochet.net [204.179.130.75]) by rgate2.ricochet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA17364; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 04:21:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:20:30 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: enkhyl@hayseed.net To: Hallam Oaks cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Fibre channel In-Reply-To: <199810300808.TAA03591@mail.aussie.org> 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 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 cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message