In <000b01bee2b0$1448f640$43cc44ce@n9h8m3>, on 08/09/99
   at 02:42 PM, Rick <[log in to unmask]> said:

>I saw a hard drive for sale with this type of interface and have
>never heard
>  of it before and can not seem to find the info i want about it.
>can anyone explain this technology to me and tell me how i wolud
>hook this up to my pc.
>do you need any special hardware and is it  better or less
>expensive than scsi?I am very interested in this new technology
>as what little i have found
>about is very interesting.
>Thank You,  Rick Fogel
Fibre Channel was invented by IBM (i think) quite awhile ago. It
uses ECL logic and Coax or Twinax cables normally. It's spec'ed at
slightly over 1Gbit/sec which produces about 100MB of thruput.
It's intended for big (as in really big) servers and mainframes.
Not! a PC product.

jan lambert
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