[rescue] let's revisit the whole FC-AL thing

[nick at snowman.net]

I got my last bach of FC-AL cards for 46$.  that was 4.
	Nick

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joshua Snyder wrote:

> Well take a look at http://www.tcnj.edu/~feuss2/fibre/fibre.html not much
> info on how to wire the tcards(and SSA style boards) but many good pics.
> When I last looked into making tcards I believe I determined that it would
> take a minimum of 12 solder joints per tcard.  The reason I didn't go much
> farther than just looking into making tcards was the cost of the controller.
> Most of us will have a Scsi controller laying around, but I didn't have
> FC-AL controller.  And at the time the cheapest one I could find was about
> $140.  I figured by the time I got the controller and drives I would be
> better off with plain scsi...
> 
> 			josh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of George Adkins
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:27 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] let's revisit the whole FC-AL thing
> 
> 
> > > > Dude... Do you have any idea how bitchy these would be to hand
> > > > assemble?  I'll help if it happens, but gah.  We're talking ~1600
> > > > solder points ber disk board give or take.
> > >
> > > Umm, I don't think so.
> > >
> > > how about 40-60 solder joints per card, max.
> 
> > Erm, you're talking tcards.  I'm not terribly intrested in tcards.  I can
> > provide the required connections though.
> 
> Okay, your SSA boards need to host what, 10 drives?
> 
> that's :
> 
> tx+, tx-, rx+, rx-, 8 ID pins, what, 8 power pins? 2 for activity LED, what
> else?  that looks like about 20 per connector + discrete components, maybe
> 40+ the interconnects to whatever the backplane boards connect to?
> 
> Okay, maybe 300 per board at the most...  I've done more wire-wrap than that
> on one board...
> 
> I don't think it'll be that difficult.  all I need is the physical layout
> parameters for the board and time to lay out the traces so that they're all
> the right length (signal) or width (power).
> 
> George
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