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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 :-)

-jason

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.

In aus.computers.sun jason andrade <jason@azure.dstc.edu.au> wrote:
: nulinnkeep@compuserve.com writes:

: 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 :-)

Jason - probably one of the old Sbus card (501-2553?) that did
25MB/s fibrechannel to an SSA100/RSM or similar.

Only useful with /old/ Sun storage gear.
D.
-- 
I don't get mad.... I get stabby.

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.

nulinnkeep@compuserve.com writes:

>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...

heh, fair enough.  apologies for my ignorance of the
appropriate part and the sledge :-)

-jason

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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