Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?

[Ricky Beam <jfbeam _at_ bluetronic.net>]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>In article <200201041725.g04HPwSr031984 _at_ svr3.applink.net> you wrote:
>> Why go Fibre Channel when Firewire is really starting to catch on?
>
>Because Firewire is Consumer electronics and nearly dead. Dont now of
>Enterpise Solutions with Firewire. Besides there is no switching support for
>it.

Actually, I suggested the use of 1394 drives instead of the extremely old
and crappy DLT tape drive.  There was just one problem... Solaris/Sparc
doesn't support SBP2. (In fact, it only supports Sun's firewire camera.)

--Ricky


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