[rescue] Insane drives

[Dave McGuire]

  Depends on the application.  My setup is quite "real" and works fine
without a hub or a switch.  It's one array connected to one computer.

     -Dave McGuire

On July 10, nick at snowman.net wrote:
> 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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