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

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From: nulinnkeep
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:21
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Thanks for the retort... thats exactly what they do and yes all the buyers knew that .....
get connected can mean many things. :-) truth is if you list the part number in the header 
ou don't even have to say anything.
Let me see 238... 239 .... yes $240

I'll sell em direct too.
Thanks for talking it up. 
btw: several have gone for $400...

-Walt

In <96uvhm$i81$1@isdserv3.macbank>, scott@hunterlink.net.au writes:
>In aus.computers.sun 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
>
>> you really have no idea what you're selling right ?
>
>I'd say he knows exactly what he's selling.
>
>> 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.
>
>Nope, thats FC-AL (or at least, one definition of it).  Theses cards,
>which are techincally called a "S-bus fibre channel host adaptor" (or
>something like that), are used for connecting to a SunStorage Array
>(SSA), and use the same FCOM's (GBIC equivalent) as on the I/O board on
>an E3000/E4000/etc.  They do 25MB/sec, and pre-date FC-AL by at least a
>few years.
>
>  Scott.
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Subject: Re: FA: Final Hours! Sun Sbus Fiber Adapter Cheap!
Date: 21 Feb 2001 02:21:05 GMT
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