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Offline Wain

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Re: SCSI questions
« on: January 26, 2004, 07:59:02 PM »
SCSI drives can be adapted to work on a Fibre Channel controller, but I don't know if you can go the other way around or not (probably can, you may have to search a bit).  Regardless, Fibre Channel and SCSI are NOT the same thing.

SCSI cables are extremely expensive when you start getting into SCSI-3 cabling types (Ultra-Wide, U160, or U320)  They are extraordinarily expensive for a number of factors, including how quickly the individual wires can discharge themselves.  There's not really a super-cheap option for advanced SCSI cables, especially if you want to have a lot of connectors.

I've got a 6-device UW cable that cost me almost $80.  My 3-device U160 cable cost around $35, and my other cable came with my controller.

Fibre Channel works on a fabric switched based concept, instead of plugging all of the drives into a loop...the protocol is quite different although the drives are very similar.
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Re: SCSI questions
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2004, 03:44:42 AM »
Cyberstorm PPC doesn't have internal termination???
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