[SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)

[Mike Nicewonger]

You sir are correct!!

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les" <les at cdproc.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)


> Pretty sure that it is Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop.
>
> Les
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Haas" <wedge at lightlink.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)
>
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Just curious- I know FCAL is Fibre Channel... but what exactly does the
> > "AL" part of the acronym stand for?
> >
> > For that matter I'm not 100% sure what Fibre Channel is... I always
> > thought it was a WAN-based technology that requires a special Fuzzy
Logic
> > controller, and speeds topped at 200Mb/s... although I'd imagine the
> > technology would be much faster now that we have SCSI 160m... but the
> > prices of Fibre Channel and SCSI drives (At least once upon a time)
seemed
> > the same or very similar... makes me think they were SCSI with a faster
> > interface.
> >
> > Any words of enlightenment greatly appreciated. :)
> >
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