Fibre Channel Hardware List...
I've just put up a simple Fibre Channel "Suggest Hardware Matrix" as the beginnings of what one might expect for Fibre Channel in FreeBSD- see http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/Fibre_Channel_Hardware.txt Suggestions welcome! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
I've just put up a simple Fibre Channel "Suggest Hardware Matrix" as the beginnings of what one might expect for Fibre Channel in FreeBSD- see http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/Fibre_Channel_Hardware.txt Suggestions welcome! As you asked, just suggestions here from someone who is putting FC stuff together for my own :-) - "Very expensive (in my opinion)" - if you mention "expensive"-"not expensive", I would propose to add rough price estimations too - this might be of interest for beginners imho. "I have used lots of different Seagate and a few IBM drives and typically have had few problems with them." - and absolutely nothing about single channel vs dual channel, issues with putting them together etc ? What's up with "1026Gbit" - is it really true ? Regards, Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:44:33PM +0100, Andrei A. Dergatchev wrote: "I have used lots of different Seagate and a few IBM drives and typically have had few problems with them." - and absolutely nothing about single channel vs dual channel, issues with putting them together etc ? What's up with "1026Gbit" - is it really true ? No, it should be 1.062 Gbit (the current fullspeed FC). Dual speed is coming soon. Don't ask for prices :-( -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlandsemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bultehttp://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
cool! I'll update page momentarily with corrections! I've just put up a simple Fibre Channel "Suggest Hardware Matrix" as the beginnings of what one might expect for Fibre Channel in FreeBSD- see http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/Fibre_Channel_Hardware.txt Suggestions welcome! As you asked, just suggestions here from someone who is putting FC stuff together for my own :-) - "Very expensive (in my opinion)" - if you mention "expensive"-"not expensive", I would propose to add rough price estimations too - this might be of interest for beginners imho. "I have used lots of different Seagate and a few IBM drives and typically have had few problems with them." - and absolutely nothing about single channel vs dual channel, issues with putting them together etc ? What's up with "1026Gbit" - is it really true ? Regards, Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
Oh, yeah, about this, 2300 support is comint "real soon" -this will be 2GBit. On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 08:44:33PM +0100, Andrei A. Dergatchev wrote: "I have used lots of different Seagate and a few IBM drives and typically have had few problems with them." - and absolutely nothing about single channel vs dual channel, issues with putting them together etc ? What's up with "1026Gbit" - is it really true ? No, it should be 1.062 Gbit (the current fullspeed FC). Dual speed is coming soon. Don't ask for prices :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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Oh, yeah, about this, 2300 support is comint "real soon" -this will be 2GBit. Thanks ! And for the page too - very good and useful !! For poor owners of 2GB-ready Seagates, I wonder can you advise on any affordable 2GB enclosure ? Everything affordable I saw is a bit old and 1GB-only. Of course, I don't now if it will make any real difference - will burst speed twice as fast or what ? Would be really nice to hear from someone knowledgeable :-) Thanks again ! Regards, Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
Oh, yeah, about this, 2300 support is comint "real soon" -this will be 2GBit. Thanks ! And for the page too - very good and useful !! For poor owners of 2GB-ready Seagates, I wonder can you advise on any affordable 2GB enclosure ? Everything affordable I saw is a bit old and 1GB-only. Of course, I don't now if it will make any real difference - will burst speed twice as fast or what ? Would be really nice to hear from someone knowledgeable :-) About the 2Gb drives, sorry! I have no clue as yet about this! Thanks again ! You're welcome! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
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] ? 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. Thanks again ! You're welcome! Regards, Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
Hi, On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Andrei A. Dergatchev wrote: 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. It's true, we at Qlogic (formerly Ancor) do have a 2Gb switch in the works. We demoed said switch at Comdex. It's pretty impressive watching your data stream by at 198MB/second! Interestingly enough, said switch runs Linux as the underlying OS (if I had been at Ancor 1 month before I got here, we'd be running FreeBSD instead!) -- Kyle Mestery / Qlogic Corporation \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Fibre Channel Hardware List...
"Kyle A.D. Mestery" wrote: It's true, we at Qlogic (formerly Ancor) do have a 2Gb switch in the works. We demoed said switch at Comdex. It's pretty impressive watching your data stream by at 198MB/second! Interestingly enough, said switch runs Linux as the underlying OS (if I had been at Ancor 1 month before I got here, we'd be running FreeBSD instead!) that's easy to fix: Can you please send me all your changes and drivers for linux in your product? You may email them to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or put them up at a generally accessible web server for our perusal.. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000-2001 --- X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message