hi all!

<sigh>  i guess it was just a rumor :-(  here's the response
i got from hp....         - d

HP uses the A5814A SCSI-FC Router in two I/O connection
solutions. The first
solution is SCSI-FC-SCSI distancing solution. It takes two
A5814As puts them
back-to-back, so that they provide a SCSI to SCSI connection
with Fibre
Channel being used in between for distance. The Distance
solution connects
any HP e3000 with F/W I/O cards to any FW SCSI disk or tape
peripheral.

The second solution connects the Hp e3000 to Fibre Channel
disk or disk
arrays directly and only one A5814A is required. The XP512
which is FC only,
is the only disk array that is certified with the router in
a SCSI to FC
mode. The XP256 was not certified in this mode of operation.

So to answer your question, No, the A5814A SCSI-FC router
does not support
the XP256 with Fibre Channel directors. It does support the
XP512 as a FC
connected device. The XP256 is only supported with two
A5814As as in the
distance solution mode of operation.

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Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]

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