[SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)

[Les]

Pretty sure that it is Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop.

Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Haas" <wedge at lightlink.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)


> Hey,
>
> Just curious- I know FCAL is Fibre Channel... but what exactly does the
> "AL" part of the acronym stand for?
>
> For that matter I'm not 100% sure what Fibre Channel is... I always
> thought it was a WAN-based technology that requires a special Fuzzy Logic
> controller, and speeds topped at 200Mb/s... although I'd imagine the
> technology would be much faster now that we have SCSI 160m... but the
> prices of Fibre Channel and SCSI drives (At least once upon a time) seemed
> the same or very similar... makes me think they were SCSI with a faster
> interface.
>
> Any words of enlightenment greatly appreciated. :)
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