Re: FA: Final Hours! Sun Sbus Fiber Adapter Cheap!

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From: Paul Brown
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:55

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In comp.sys.sun.misc jason andrade <jason@azure.dstc.edu.au> wrote:
> nulinnkeep@compuserve.com writes:

>>$500+ now less than $100 on ebay....

>>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1214470951

>>Geeks get connected with the speed of fiber.

> you really have no idea what you're selling right ?

> if it's a fibrechannel HBA then i can't figure out why
> you'd say it does 25mb (megabit ? megabyte?) as it should
> do 100Mbyte/sec.

> if it's a FDDI card, then it should do 100Mbit/sec.

> if you're saying 25mb (Mbit?) then perhaps it's an ATM
> nic ?  not a "fiber adapter" (sic). an adapter for what ?
> i am actually curious..

> anyhow, the fact that someone was willing to pay US$240 for
> it means it was worth something to them and i guess they
> knew exactly what they were getting :-)

It's an SBus SSA controller for the old SSA 114 and 115 arrays
which did indeed run at 25Mb. They are quite cheap, not too slow
and not quite the same as any FC card you will see these days.

Unless you have an SSA11x then it's not really any use.

Paul

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