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choasforages

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« on: 27 December 2002, 04:41 »
well, ive been looking on ebay and pricewatch. linux supports fiber channel right?/*looked up a few controllers, does anybody have personal experiance with this stuff?*/ and how does one "wire" fiber channel drives together? and is it worth it?
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« Reply #1 on: 27 December 2002, 06:29 »
fiberchannel is for servers dude just use scsi if you are into performance hardware.
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« Reply #2 on: 27 December 2002, 17:20 »
Well I would recomend you start with a CAT5 Ethernet switched LAN.  Just search on google and buy a patch cable tester and a few other tools and construct your LAN with a cheap 100MB Ethernet swithing HUB.

You will learn tonnes.

or if your insane Fiber Channel - General_Overview
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« Reply #3 on: 27 December 2002, 18:32 »
yeah, i was going to say, i already have a handle on nfs. so about the 127 devices, i know the controller is one, but how does one connect the drives, anybody have any info on that?
x86: a hack on a hack of a hackway
alpha, hewlett packed it A-way
ppc: the fruity way
mips: the graphical way
sparc: the sunny way
4:20.....forget the DMCA for a while!!!