Our fibre channel devices show up as scsi devices on both Tru64 UNIX and
HP-UX. I would expect most UNIX systems to behave the same. The
underlying drivers are the same, as I understand it (FC being a
serialized version of SCSI).
Best wishes with the implementation.
Don Ritchey
IT ED RTS Tech Services, Senior IT Analyst (UNIX)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
[mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org] On Behalf Of Gavin Henry
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:28 PM
To: Joshua Baker-LePain
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: SAS/Fibre Channel interface for LTO4
<quote who="Joshua Baker-LePain">
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 at 4:43pm, Gavin Henry wrote
>
>> We're looking at an LTO4 device and have an option for SAS or fibre
>> channel interface for hooking up to the server and Amanda.
>>
>> Never dealt with this kind of interface before. How would it appear
to a
>> *nix server and Amanda?
>
> I haven't played with any such hardware yet, but I'd be shocked if a
SAS
> device appeared as anything other than a "scsi" device. Fibre I can't
> help you with.
Yeah, good point. SAS is cheaper than Fibre too.
Thanks,
Gavin.
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