[rescue] fiber goodness

[nick at snowman.net]

Most things that will take 50um fibre will run on 62.5um fibre with a
minor distance penalty (~400m on 62um, ~55m0 on 50um) IIRC, but that's not
always true.
	Nick

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 01:57 PM, Michael Schiller wrote:
> >>    Proper cables, though, with any connectors commonly used for FDDI
> >> (MIC, SC, and ST) are always on eBay for cheap, though.
> >
> > Are FDDI fiber cables any different than other types of cables? I just
> > resetup my SS1000 and it's fiber array, and rather than using a Sun 
> > cable,
> > I tried to use a cable I'd used before for FDDI (and it worked fine 
> > there)
> > and it wouldn't work. As soon as I put a Sun cable back on it worked 
> > fine.
> > I think I've used the Sun cables before for FDDI, but apparently the 
> > SSA's
> > don't like non Sun cables?
> 
>    Well FDDI uses FDDI cables, and FC-AL uses FC-AL cables. ;)
> 
>    FDDI is typically 62.5/125 fiber, and FC-AL is usually 50/125.  
> Neither is really any more common or more weird than the other, they're 
> just...well, different types of cable.
> 
>        -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
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