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
Billing Concepts
(210) 949-7282



-----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

--
Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
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