[Sunhelp] Re: [SunRescue] SBus FDDI card question

[Dave McGuire]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Kent Rankin wrote:
>Does anyone know of a dual-FDDI card for SBus that runs on a single
>SBus slot?  The only one that I'm familiar with is dual-width SBus, thus
>unusable on a Ultra 1/170e(the target platform).  I'd use two
>single-width FDDI cards for this, but the system needs an extra Fast
>Ethernet adapter, so only one SBus slot is available.

  I've used many sbus DAS FDDI boards...every one I've seen has been a
dual-width board.

  Several manufacturers are using the smaller FDDI connectors to fit two on the
plate of a PCI board (anyone know what those connectors are called?) but I
haven't seen anyone using those connectors to fit two on a single sbus board.

  I'd suggest using a SAS FDDI board (they're all over the place) and get a
small concentrator (with DAS A & B connectors) to put on the ring...then use an
M connector (SAS) to go to the SAS FDDI board.  It's another box, and it's more
expensive, but it'll save you that slot.

             -Dave McGuire