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And in any real setup you pretty much need a FC hub or switch, but they're
getting cheap.
	Nick

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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
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