[rescue] RE: Fiber channel

[dave venable]

My idea was to build short fiber cables, install the cards and connect 2
computers. Looking at the price of connectors on the web, it's not looking
good.

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From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 8:51 PM
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Cc: dave venable
Subject: [rescue] RE: Fiber channel


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On January 15, dave venable wrote:
> > could anyone suggust a supplier that could provide the fiber, connectors
and
> > the means to attach them? I would need about 40 connectors and about
100' of
> > fiber.
>
>   UltraSpec Cables in NJ.  I haven't dealt with them in a few years, but
> they were great a couple of years ago.  They're not cheap, but they

I have an odd feeling that fiber is going to be impractical cost-wise...
I've gotten SC-SC multimode patches for $20 locally at junk shops, but for
the cost of two of those cables you can get a 10base hub and enough patch
cables (assuming you were going for the cost factor with the fiber
cards, and not the optical distance capability or some special driver
project for those cards in particular)..

--Rob

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