Yes, but from what I've been told, the SCSI/Fiber bridge has to be
converted back to SCSI before going into the XP.  In essence, the
SCSI/Fiber bridge is nothing more than a SCSI distance extender.  On
other boxes, you might be able to get away with what you are talking
about, but on the HP3000, with MPE/iX, you are still talking SCSI.

Kevin

Carl McNamee wrote:
>
> I have looked into this fairly extensively and found that you can purchase
> fiber boards for the xp256.  As you surmise there would be scsi leaving the
> 3k going into a scsi to fiber bridge.  From the bridge you run fiber to the
> xp.
>
> One nice feature that turned up in my investigations was the ability to hang
> several of these bridges off the same fiber port.  So you can assign say 40
> drives to the fiber and then break this out to four scsi channels with 10
> scsi drives each.  This lets you take full advantage of the fiber on the xp.
>
> Carl McNamee
> Systems Administrator
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 2:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] xp256 and fibre channel
>
> since i'm getting so many -- there's no fibre channel for mpe replies <sigh>
> --
> let me try to say it again....
>
> i *know* there's no fibre for mpe (geesh!).  i know that in the recent past
> the
> only way to get from a 3000 to a xp256 was to do a scsi-to-fiber
> conversion..fibre..fibre..fibre...the a fibre-to-scsi conversion (again)
> prior to
> going into the xp.  (rather a pain, if you ask me...especially if the xp
> doesn't
> have any scsi connections (which they can have, btw)).  i heard at hpworld
> --
> which i'm currently considering a *rumor* (even though i heard from a csy
> person)
> -- that things have changed and the 2nd conversion is no longer required.
> that
> is, once the signal has been converted to fibre you can go fibre all the way
> to
> the xp.  i hope that's more clear....
>
> so, does anyone know for sure?              - d
>
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