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Q: Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL adapter that works with 3rd-party FC-AL disks?

Q: Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL adapter that works with 3rd-party FC-AL disks?

Post by David A. Let » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00



Hello:

Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL host adapter with Solaris support?  I
know that sun does, but I have heard that it only works with their
Fibre-channel RAID systems.  This is definately the case with their
PCI product.  If I am wrong and SUN's SBUS product works well with all
non-SUN hardware, then I would like to know that as well.

I would also appreciate any comments on how the card performs, and
anything else a prospective user would like to know.

- manufacturer responses are quite welcome, but disk subsystem
solictors would be wasting their time <grin>

Thanks
David A. Lethe
Compass
972-208-0905

 
 
 
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Q: Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL adapter that works with 3rd-party FC-AL disks?

Post by Fredrik Lundho » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00




Quote:>Hello:

>Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL host adapter with Solaris support?  I
>know that sun does, but I have heard that it only works with their
>Fibre-channel RAID systems.  This is definately the case with their
>PCI product.  If I am wrong and SUN's SBUS product works well with all
>non-SUN hardware, then I would like to know that as well.

Well, I use the internal (SBus) FC_AL sockets from E3500 I/O board
successfully to generic seagate FC_AL disks internally mounted..
Works great..

Fredrik

 
 
 
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Q: Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL adapter that works with 3rd-party FC-AL disks?

Post by David A. Let » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00






>>Hello:

>>Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL host adapter with Solaris support?  I
>>know that sun does, but I have heard that it only works with their
>>Fibre-channel RAID systems.  This is definately the case with their
>>PCI product.  If I am wrong and SUN's SBUS product works well with all
>>non-SUN hardware, then I would like to know that as well.

>Well, I use the internal (SBus) FC_AL sockets from E3500 I/O board
>successfully to generic seagate FC_AL disks internally mounted..
>Works great..

>Fredrik

Did the supplied drivers allow you to manipulate all of the FC-AL
setting?  In case of SUN's PCI (or more correctly the card sun OEMs
from Q-LOGIC) card, you only get the real drivers and libraries with
the A5000 FC-AL array.  After working with the SUN PCI drivers, we
were able to get 3rd party RAID to work, but performance was awful,
because the configuration was not changeable.

Since this posting, I learned that EMULEX has a pretty decent SBUS
board, but it is more expensive.

Thanks for the info.

 
 
 
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Q: Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL adapter that works with 3rd-party FC-AL disks?

Post by g.. » Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:00:00


        I couldn't get the Sun FCAL adapters to work with a Xiotech Magnitude
disk array.  I bought a JNI UltraFibre card and it worked fine.  Can't remember
their web page but I'm sure a web search would turn it up.


Quote:> Hello:
> Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL host adapter with Solaris support?  I
> know that sun does, but I have heard that it only works with their
> Fibre-channel RAID systems.  This is definately the case with their
> PCI product.  If I am wrong and SUN's SBUS product works well with all
> non-SUN hardware, then I would like to know that as well.
> I would also appreciate any comments on how the card performs, and
> anything else a prospective user would like to know.
> - manufacturer responses are quite welcome, but disk subsystem
> solictors would be wasting their time <grin>
> Thanks
> David A. Lethe
> Compass
> 972-208-0905

 
 
 
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Q: Does anybody make an SBUS FC-AL adapter that works with 3rd-party FC-AL disks?

Post by Fredrik Lundho » Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:00:00






>>Well, I use the internal (SBus) FC_AL sockets from E3500 I/O board
>>successfully to generic seagate FC_AL disks internally mounted..
>>Works great..

>>Fredrik

>Did the supplied drivers allow you to manipulate all of the FC-AL
>setting?  In case of SUN's PCI (or more correctly the card sun OEMs
>from Q-LOGIC) card, you only get the real drivers and libraries with
>the A5000 FC-AL array.  After working with the SUN PCI drivers, we
>were able to get 3rd party RAID to work, but performance was awful,
>because the configuration was not changeable.

Hmm.. I only connected a bunch of disks to the two FC_AL ports so I
wouldn't know if can 'manipulate all of the FC-AL settings'..
If you have a third party raid box I guess you'll need some sort of
configuration tool, but for me, Volume manager and a buch of disks
works OK.
Since the FC_AL ports are built in to several larger Suns, the
device-drivers better be bundled in Solaris.. :)

Quote:>Thanks for the info.

/Fredrik
 
 
 
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