Need advice from someone who knows what FC-AL-2 is ?

[djfluff]

I found some REALLY cheep 10k SCSSI drives, but they have a FC-AL-2 interface.

Could I use one of these http://store.thescsistore.com/newsca2adorb.html

so I could use these http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/SEADR413

on a normal SCSSI controller ??

Cheers

[peterb]

These are fibre channel devices and will need a specific fibre channel contoller (HBA an fibre channel speak) I am not very familiar with the rechnology except that fibre channel can run over twisted pair (which I suspect these are as they have a 40 pin centronics interface.)

The SCA2 physical interface is described here http://www.rackmount.com/RAID/HD_Interface.htm

[da_ging]

FC-AL-2 is fibre channel drive so the answer is no i believe

*bah beaten to it , teach me to wander off half way through a reply

[peterb]

The manual for the device you linked to is here

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...tah_10k7_fc_pm.

Here are some deatils of adaptors that might work with that drive http://www.cs-electronics.com/fibre-...l-adapters.htm

[s3ds]

http://store.thescsistore.com/newsca2adorb.html

this is used to convert a 80 pin to a 68 pin scsi card

http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/SEADR413

this is a fiber channel drive and has a 40 pin connector

installation pdf
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...10k7_fc_ig.pdf

short answer = no

ive never used adaptors i always match scsi cards to the drives



Paul

[derchris]

I found some REALLY cheep 10k SCSSI drives, but they have a FC-AL-2 interface.

Could I use one of these http://store.thescsistore.com/newsca2adorb.html

so I could use these http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/SEADR413

on a normal SCSSI controller ??

Cheers

Can I ask how cheap?
And what size?

[badass]

Just to add, the Fibre channel HBA's (or the cards needed for a fibre channel interface) tend to be well over £1000 a piece!
That'll probably offset any saving you make on those 10k drives

[derchris]

Just to add, the Fibre channel HBA's (or the cards needed for a fibre channel interface) tend to be well over £1000 a piece!
That'll probably offset any saving you make on those 10k drives

If that would be true, then I might be rich, as I have more then one laying around here

As everything else, it depends on the model you are looking after.
You can get cheap ones, and you can get expensive ones.

[djfluff]

Thanks guys. It was a nice idea...