[rescue] FC-AL GBIC's

[Shawn Wallbridge]

> On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 01:49 PM, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
>> So I need a pile (5-20) of Sun Fibre Channel GBIC's. Anyone have a
>> supplier?
>>
>> These look to be the ones I need, but IIRC the Vixel ones are less
>> than stellar....
>
>    I've heard that several times, but I've been using four of them for
> ~2 years with good results.  I got them before people told me to avoid
> them. :-/
>

Cool, maybe I will give them a shot (one is on ePay right now).

>> Same with FC-AL PCI cards. I was looking at the Qlogic 2[1,2]00F's any
>> recommendations?
>
>    Depends on the machine/OS you want to run it in.  The Qlogic cards
> are supported by the BSDs...I'm running a QLA-2100F in my AS4100
> running NetBSD/alpha v1.6.  The Emulex LP-7000 and LP-8000 are really
> sweet and have good Solaris drivers.
>

Well most of them will actually be connected to Windows machines. Yeah I
know :-( Mine will be connected to my AXi or a Netra probably running
Linux or OpenBSD.

>         -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire             "I've grown hair again, just
> St. Petersburg, FL           for the occasion."       -Doc Shipley

shawn