SUMMARY: FC-AL HBAs for Solaris ?

Thanks to everyone who replied.  I'll keep my eye out for something on
eBay (since this is for sunhelp.org, my nonprofit personal project, I 
cant afford buying something at retail or even reseller prices).  I got
a couple of Interphase cards off ebay a copule of weeks ago, but i wont
know about Solaris/SPARC compatibility until they get here mid-week.

Thanks again.

And, the responses:

From: "steve j. kondik" <shade@chemlab.org>
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over where i work, we just buy the McData (emulex) LP8000 boards.  i
believe they are about $1500 new, but you can pick them up pretty cheap
on ebay (i've seen em go for $500).  they work in both fc-al or switched
fabric modes.  these are the boards that EMC has been recommending.

From: Thomas Anders <anders@hmi.de>
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Qlogic and LSI are known to make good FC HBAs. But no SAN
equipment can be called cheap, unfortunately.

From: Al Hopper <al@logical-approach.com>
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A Qlogic 2200 series controller from EBay is your best bet.  Going rate is
between ~ $170 to ~ $300.

From: "Mike's List" <mikelist@sky.net>
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try antares.com --online reseller/shop http://www.ace-electronics.com

From: Bertrand_Hutin@notes.amdahl.com
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Atto seems to be the cheapest here in Europe.
http://www.attotech.com/
Drivers available for Solaris.

From: "Doug Otto" <doug.otto@govstor.com>
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The Sun card is a Qlogic 2100.
X6799 is the option part num and 375-3019 is the service part num.

From: "Rasmussen, Thorfinn T" <Thorfinn.Rasmussen@standardbank.com>
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qlogic cards are ok as long as you're not trying to connect to any HP
arrays. They might work with HP, but HP doesn't support them.

From: "Heilke, Rainer" <Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com>
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Emulex still has HBAs for Sparcs. We use them for the Compaq NT/W2K servers,
so they can't be all bad. ;-) I don't know their pricing, though, as we use
the JNI cards on the Sun side.

From: "Kevin Boykin" <kboykin@neteng.com>
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Refurbed stuff is pretty cheap:
www.ccny.com
www.wccx.com
Both of these are pretty good vendors.

From: "Gurugunti, Mahesh" <MGurugunti@us.nomura.com>
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If you are using anything later than Solaris 2.5.1 go for JNI card. If not
go for Sun HBA.

From: "Mark Gosselin" <gosselinm@netscout.com>
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What is you price range?? I'm using Emulex 9000 HBA that cost $1250 each....
An older Emulex8000 is $1222.....

From: "Doug Otto" <doug.otto@govstor.com>
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Check eBay.  I grabbed a Sun FC-AL card for $50 earlier in the
year....since they're loop only folk don' want them.

-- 
Bill Bradford     
mrbill@mrbill.net 
Austin, TX        
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