pablotinch wrote:
i just got from ebay a
Barracuda 18LP for me oktagon 2008 , but reading the manual of the hard drive i can not find what can of interface is it does not seem to be 50 , 80 pin i am kind of confuse if this hd will work in mine octagon .
so anybody can help me here
ST-318275FC Fibre Channel FC-AL, Dual Port (Barracuda 18 LP)
Fibre-Channel = the connector. I've never seen one myself, but I can tell you that it definately won't work with your oktagon.
I'm sorry to say this, but I think you just bought yourself a paperweight...
From seagate.com
Fibre Channel:
This refers to products with fibre channel physical and protocol layers using the SCSI command set. The Fibre Channel interface is completely different from parallel SCSI in that it is a serial interface, meaning command and data information is transmitted on one signal stream organized into packets. The fibre may be either a copper coaxial cable or a fiber optic cable. The signal on the first implementation of fibre channel uses a 1 GHz rate, thereby achieving 100 Mbytes/sec over the cable. Fibre channel also implements increased software control of configuration and pushes the total device count on the bus to 126 IDs, as opposed to only 8 or 16 on a parallel bus. For more information, see our Technology Paper on Fibre Channel. Seagate designates a fiber channel SCSI interface with an "fc" in the model number.
-Paul
