[SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)

[Les]

I know I am about to be attacked for blasphemy,
but I prefer IBM's SSA for reliability. I have never
seen so many popup problems as when one of
the little (NOT CHEAP) gbic modules flakes out.

Les
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reagen Ward" <ward at zilla.nu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] WTB: FCAL cards (SBus)


> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:53:49PM -0500, Matthew Haas wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Just curious- I know FCAL is Fibre Channel... but what exactly does the
> > "AL" part of the acronym stand for?
> 
> Arbitrated Loop, an interesting way of sharing / dividing the bus.
> Compare to switched fabric and EPL (HP Proprietary way of faking things).
> 
> Reagen
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