11 May
2007
11 May
'07
2:27 p.m.
On May 11, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
As far as the controller goes, there's a 1Gb FC-AL
SBUS card that Sun
has to connect to their storage gear (no idea if it'll actually work
with just any FC gear, or if it has to be one of Sun's things, I seem
to remember it'll sorta work with non-sun gear, but can't remember for
sure), or you can use one of a few different 1Gb FC HBAs.
They're compatible with pretty much any FC hardware. I've not
found one box that won't work with a Sun HBA.
The only problem I've run into is that the Sun FibreChannel
controller chip used in the Ex500 machines (called "SOC") won't work
in fabric mode (i.e., with a switch)...it only supports FC-AL (Fibre
Channel-Arbitrated Loop), which is what you get when you don't use an
FC switch.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL