[geeks] FC enclosure

[Ken Hansen]

That sounds interesting - but then the cost of the controller remains...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Wargo [mailto:pwargo at basenji.com]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 8:28 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] FC enclosure


How about using a "standard" scsi drive case, but whipping up FCAL copper
connectors on ribbon cable?  the costly bit would be the fiver-copper
converter (GBIC) and associated bracketry...

_P

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Peter L. Wargo
pwargo at basenji.com
Owner/operator of basenji.com.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 nick at snowman.net wrote:

> That's several hundred dollars off the best I've seen a decent FC
> enclosure go for.  I may well be overestimating the total cost, and I
> suspect I am, but I'd prefer as time goes on to revise my estimate down,
> rather than up.
> 	Nick
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> > Geez, that is a steep case price...
> > 
> > Are used cases *that* hard to find?
> > 
> > Just curious...
> > 
> > Ken
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nick at snowman.net [mailto:nick at snowman.net]
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:13 PM
> > To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [geeks] FC enclosure
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, How many ppl here would be intrested in working on designing and
> > getting a fc-al enclosure built?  I figure for rational production runs
> > (10+) we could get the price down between 400 and 500$ per enclosure,
> > possibly with power supplies extra.  As I understand it FC does not cause
> > too many problems, and most of the parts are off-the-shelf.  The most
> > difficult part would be the custom sheetmetal, and I belive that is
> > doable.
> > 	Nick
> > 
> > 
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