[rescue] Insane drives

[Dave McGuire]

On July 10, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> What do you need other than the drives and the controller?

  A chassis.  An expensive one.  And some not-so-cheap cables, and
depending on the chassis and controller, a couple of also-not-so-cheap
GBICs.

  FC-AL isn't an "ordinary" setup in which you connect a drive to a
controller with a cable.  It's designed for arrays, and ONLY arrays.
You plug FC-AL drives into a chassis which includes a lot of fancy
electronics, then that interfaces to a controller.

  You don't, for example, buy an FC-AL drive and an FC-AL controller
and put them inside a computer.  That's not what it was designed for.

    -Dave McGuire