[OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread David Miller
Apologies for the off topic nature of the question... I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives for $219, pricewatch has 9 GB and 18 GB drives from seagate and IBM for under $100. The issue, of course, is that one needs a low cost

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Feldman
www.cinonic.com, I think. - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seattle On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Miller wrote: Apologies for the off topic nature of the question... I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives for

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Feldman
Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but: What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD? I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own enclosure with Cinonic cards, buy clearance 1 GHz drives,

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
The JMR 4-bay is about as cheap as you'll find as far as I know. The 2K$ plus is for the 10 slot. There might be something cheaper at http://www.scsistuff.com. Yes. Pricey. The only other thing is to find (and I don't know a source) of paddlebard adapters with the 40-pin SCA connector, a +5/+12

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Dan Feldman wrote: Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but: What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD? I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own enclosure