It appears that these should work, but would not be covered by Sun support (obviously). However, I was able to get low-price refurb Sun-brand GBIC, so that's what I went with. Thanks for all the answers. On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Christophe Dupre wrote: > Hello gurus, > I have a Sun E3500 with four SBus I/O boards. Each has two FC-AL adaptors > with the slot for a GBIC. One of those is in use for the internal hard > drives. > > We are planning on buying an external 3rd party FCAL disk array. Since > Sun's GBIC is expensive ($360) we're looking at 3rd party options. > > One of those is the GBC-3000 from CS Electronics > (http://www.scsi-cables.com/gbic-mia.htm) which is $175. We have done > business with that company in the past for SCSI adaptors and were always > very happy with the quality, but fibre channel is still new to us. > > So, the questions are: > - Is there any reason for it not to work ? > - Is there any difference between a FCAL GBIC and a Gig Ethernet GBIC ? -- Christophe Dupre System Administrator, Scientific Computation Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY USA Phone: (518) 276-2578 - Fax: (518) 276-4886 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Feb 11 00:07:27 2003
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