[rescue] let's revisit the whole FC-AL thing

[nick at snowman.net]

That's what I've been designing & working on.  What I need right now is a
sure fire way to load share across three ATX power supplies, with the
ability to loose one.  I've got a few ideas, but most of them are UGLY.
	Nick

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Big Endian wrote:

> >I got my last bach of FC-AL cards for 46$.  that was 4.
> >	Nick
> >
> >On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joshua Snyder wrote:
> >
> >>  Well take a look at http://www.tcnj.edu/~feuss2/fibre/fibre.html not much
> >>  info on how to wire the tcards(and SSA style boards) but many good pics.
> >>  When I last looked into making tcards I believe I determined that it would
> >>  take a minimum of 12 solder joints per tcard.  The reason I didn't go much
> >>  farther than just looking into making tcards was the cost of the controller.
> >>  Most of us will have a Scsi controller laying around, but I didn't have
> >>  FC-AL controller.  And at the time the cheapest one I could find was about
> >>  $140.  I figured by the time I got the controller and drives I would be
> >  > better off with plain scsi...
> 
> How hard would it be build one of these into an array or two?  I 
> wouldn't mind building a bunch of FC-AL drive slots into my Proliant 
> 6000.  With the proper resources it shouldn't be too hard to build 
> shelves for the 6000 would it?  I could use the 6000's power 
> systems... and I can run cables inside the machine.    How hard would 
> this be?  I've never done anything like this before.
> 
> daniel
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