11 May
2007
11 May
'07
1:09 p.m.
On May 11, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Well my statement was based on the thought that discussion of one
of the most modern storage interconnects in existence has precisely
jack squat to do with classic computing. ;)
Ahh, yes indeed. I've not used any desktop Suns that are that
recent. All of my Sun "direct GUI use" transitioned several years
ago to Sun Ray thin clients backed by beefy machines (E3500 until
just recently, now Sun Fire 280R).
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
This is
about as off-topic as can be, but I use a lot of FC
storage at home and at work, so I can answer your questions below.
I'm not so sure that it is, it's reaching the point where older
computers
are likely to be able to work with FC. In any case I suspect this is
likely to be of interest to several people here. I know I'm
interested.
I'd love to be able to add a FC Disk Shelf at some point to my VMS
Server.
Though that's counterproductive to my wanting to make it quieter
and use
less power...
Indeed, but speed is nice, as are the cheap megabytes. Assuming
it's got a PCI bus, IIRC the FCA you'll need is a KGPSA, which (again
IIRC) is a relabeled Emulex LP-series board. Properly configured, an
Alpha can even boot from a SAN over that card.
Lots of
bigger Suns have integral FC storage...Ex500, Sun Fire
x80R, etc. It verrah nice. :)
So do some of the smaller ones. The SunBlade 1000 I have supports two
internal FC Disks. I forget if I have a pair of 18GB or 36GB
drives in it.