[rescue] Re: rescue digest, Vol 1 #2549 - 15 msgs

[Michael Dombrowski]

> > What card should I look for for my:
> > 	PC (PCI, ISA, PCMCIA??)?
> 
>  For PCI & EISA - Dec DEFPA (PCI) or DEFEA (EISA).  FDDI on ISA is
> available, but well...it sucks beyond believe. 100mbps down an 8Mhz
> bus? Never seen a PCMCIA FDDI board.  The DEFPA and DEFEA are well
> supported in all the Free *nix OSes, and MacOS 8&90.

I believe there is ISA FDDI but it's truly awful. I've never seen or 
heard of PCMCIA FDDI or CDDI card either. Syskonnect also makes nice 
PCI boards.

> > 	Sbus Sparc?
> 
> Any of the crescendo or cisco cards...supported only in solaris.

The Sun cards are also very nice and usually ~$10 on Ebay.
 
> > 	PCI Sparc?
> 
> The Sun Labelled boards or SysKonnect

I have a couple Sun PCI FDDI boards left for cheap if you want them, 
contact me off list.

> > 	Alpha?
> 
> DEFPA for PCI, DEFZA for Turbochannel, DEFEA for EISA.

I'd stay away from the DEFZA. It's not supported by any of the free 
OS's and is not that good. You want DEFTA which is the Turbochannel 
equivalent of DEFPA. See http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/tc.html

> >
> > What do I need?  Just a FDDI hub?  Cabling?
> 
> You'll need a concentrator.  As far as cabling goes, you've got two
> options.  FDDI, which is fiber...or CDDI, which is just cat 5.  Same
> protocol, just different physical media.

Stay away from CDDI it combines the disadvantages of copper cabling 
and FDDI. But some people on this list run it and like it so YMMV.

Mike