[SunRescue] Fibre Channel, again

[Joshua Snyder]

You can make copper fibre channel to sca connectors very easily.  I did a
lot of research into the exact pinouts.  I haven't put together one of the
connectors yet, mostly because I am looking for a cheap Fc adapter( I would
love a Qlogic adapter, hint, hint :).  Here is all of the info that I could
dig up...

http://www.tcnj.edu/~feuss2/fibre/fibre.html
This has the full Sca pinout in it...
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/iguides/fc/29340a.pdf
And this has the pinout for the DB-9 connector...
http://www.emulex.com/ts/fc/docs/lp3000/specs.htm

As far as I have been able to tell you only need to connect the tx and rx
line from the copper Fc DB-9 connector to the port A in and out on the
drive.  I hope this helps... p.s. anyone have some cheap fibre channel
adapters?

					josh

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of mike dombrowski
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:03 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunRescue] Fibre Channel, again


A while ago the topic came up about finding a way to use those really
cheap fibre channel disks they have on Ebay. Like:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1222602758

Anybody ever find an adapter that lets you use these things internally
without having to buy an exspensive external box? Or how about a cheap
external box, do such things exist? These drives are cheaper than IDE
even and about 3x cheaper than same size scsi.

Mike
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