Yes it is...It's called fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop..most hard drive
manufacturers have quite good documents on this as well as their own jumper
settings -- to give you a guide to your LVD vs SE questions. Typically you will
have to move a jumper to choose between SE {single ended} and LVD.
Enjoy.
D.
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Dave Fitch wrote:
> Scott Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The exception to this is LVD. LVD (Low Voltage Differential) drives are
> > generally (I think always, but i'm not sure) auto-sensing between Diff and
> > non-diff, which means that if you hook an LVD drive onto a Diff bus it will
> > work as diff, and if you hook it onto a non-diff bus it will work as
> > non-diff. This means that you can basically plug them into anything and they
> > will work.
>
> I've found you usually need to switch on the jumper on the disk
> to force single ended IO.
>
> > Of course, then there's FC-AL (1062.5 Megabits/second, or just over 100
> > MBytes/sec, over Fibre), which is incompatible with the lot (and this
> > generally includes each vendors FCAL being incompatible with anothers).
>
> that's the one known as "fibre channel" isn't it?
>
> Dave.
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