A note to this information, I just checked on this yesterday and the part is
A5488A and the software is B5427BA the retail price of the card is $1,750
and the software was free with the card when ordered but they had to be
ordered together.
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Chris Goodey
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Request 100Mb Ethernet on 3K war and success stori es
I think you always get the 10mb interface as it is
on the standard multi-function card, along with
the modem, 2 SCSI interfaces, console interface, etc.
It works just fine. But you do have to pay for the
software! I think most people now days order the 100mbit
LAN as 10mbs is not quite enough. Even the smallest HPs
have two full I/O slots, and 2 half-height slots. The LAN
card goes in the small slots, and your 16 bit FWD SCSIs can
go in the other 2 full sized slots. On a small system
your internal discs most like run off of the built-in
16 bit SCSI, and your tape drive probably is run from
the built-in 8 bit SCSI. If you only have 2 or 3 discs this
is fine. You might want to go for another SCSI card if
you add many other discs. Since you indicated a small
system, I am assuming you will be fine with just a few
internal drives. Alas, the system disc is still limited
to 4gb, no matter what size drive you actually buy.
I think they are now shipping the 36gb drives, so if performance
is not an issue, a 4gb and a 36gb could serve you well.
(for performance, like on-line databases, 4 9gb drives
are probably much better than 1 36, but as always,
your milage may very, and your application requirements
are most like different than others.
Good luck!
If you have a small enough system, you may not be able to
drive the card at full speed, but you will certainly get more
out of it than from the 10mbit.
For example, if I transfer files from our slow HP977 to
our slow HP939/020 via ftp, I can select the 10 or 100mbit
interface (by using different IPs) and the 100mbit only does
2-3 times more than the 10, because the HP977 is just not
fast enough to do much better.
The only problems I have encountered with the 100mbit
were in the switches we connected to. Sometimes they
would decide the HP link was half-duplex, and this really
slowed things down (ftp speed dropped to about 10% of the
normal speed.) We solved this by removing the speed sensing
and auto-negotiating on the switch and forcing the settings.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Barry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 9:20 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] Request 100Mb Ethernet on 3K war and success stories
Hi, I'm thinking of proposing the purchase of a small
HP e3000 with a 100Mb ethernet card in it as its sole
communications interface and so I'm curious how happy
people have been with the 100Mb card vs. the standard
10Mb card. Did you have any problems ordering the
system with the 100Mb card and no 10Mb card? Does the
card work well? How is its performance?
If you have any success stories or war stories
involving the 100Mb ethernet card, please pass them
along. I don't subscribe to the list (I read the
archives on Raven a lot), so please email your
responses both to me and to the list.
Thanks!
Ted
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