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From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>,
        Bernd Eckenfels <usenet2001-12@lina.inka.de>
Subject: Re: Two hdds on one channel - why so slow?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:50:19 -0600
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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 17:49, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> >In article <200201041725.g04HPwSr031984@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.)

So their new workstations come with Firewire ports but don't support SBP-2.
Ugh.  That's Sun for you.


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