[rescue] Internal Fibre Channel Gear!

Eric Dittman rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Dec 21 08:39:09 CST 2001


> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:41:46PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:55:25PM -0500, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> > > Somewhat ghetto, but for cheap, internal, non-production fibre 
> > > channel stuff look here:
> > > http://24.23.123.57/index2.html
> > > I just came across their site via Ebay, I've never bought anything 
> > > from them. Their stuff does not look too professional but, if it 
> > > works...
> > 
> >Wow.  That is seriously ghetto stuff.  And yet somehow cool as all get out.  I
> >love it(the idea and look, don't take this as a recommendation from me since I
> >haven't been a customer).
> 
> OH, btw, their cables are cheap.  This make an internal fiber chanel setup 
> start looking affordable, if you manage to find a cheap FC-AL control (I see 
> them occasionally on ebay).  Hmm.  This gets me thinking again.  If I don't 
> shut up now the men in white coats might show up again.

All I need to get a fibre channel setup going is a controller.  I have the
drives (very inexpensive), cables, and raid box (a prototype DEC StorageWorks2
box that was cancelled in favor of the new universal SBB).
-- 
Eric Dittman
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