[Info-vax] fibrechannel

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In article <D5ednfG2pqlTc_HSnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 3/23/2012 3:35 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>> Having recently obtained some new (for me) hardware, I'm wondering if it
>> is worth the trouble (now, that means mainly the question whether it can
>> be done quickly) to have connections other than ethernet (which
>> currently carries everything) among the machines.  Is it simply a matter
>> of sticking in a card and having it just work out of the box or does one
>> have a lot of configuration to do?
>>
>
>You will need, at a minimum, device drivers for every system that will
>use fiber optic.
>
>I believe that fiber optic requires special tools to install.

Fingers and opposable thumb.

The FC card plug in like any other PCI.  The FC cables "plug" into those
and then to the fibre switch or other FC devices.  
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