I know that both of my 760's came with PCI FCALs and terminators on the on-board (no orange stickers).
And I remember my instructor at Admin telling us to not use them on any 7xx series filer.
- Scott W.
-----Original Message-----
From: July @ Zerowait [mailto:july@zerowait.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:58 AM
To: Brian Long; Walter Ellinthorpe
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com; David Lugo
Subject: Re: On Board Fiber Channel performance
To my knowledge the problem with onboard FCAL was only in F740's. Anyone else hear differently?
July
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Long" <brilong@cisco.com>
To: "Walter Ellinthorpe" <walter.ellinthorpe@unitedmessaging.com>
Cc: <toasters@mathworks.com>; "David Lugo" <david.lugo@unitedmessaging.com>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: On Board Fiber Channel performance
> > I have Filers in several locations. My newest installation has a
> > noticeable DECREASE in performance.
> >
> > Of all the possible factors (OS version, network hardware/software
> > etc..) the only common denominator is that all of my previous
> > installations have filers with two PCI Fiber Channel Cards and the
> > filers in the new location use One PCI Fiber Channel card and one
> > On-Board Fiber Channel adapter.
> >
> > Are there any known issues with using the on-board Fiber Channel
> > adapter vs. PCI Fiber Channel adapters ??
>
> Walter,
>
> I assume you're using a F7XX-series filer since the newer F8XX filers
> do not have onboard FC-AL.
>
> Netapp's F7XX motherboard FC-AL has a known bug and Netapp ended up
> shipping every F7XX with a free PCI FC-AL card after the bug was
> found. They usually shipped the motherboard FC-AL with a terminator
> and an orange sticker saying not to use that port :-)
>
> I would highly recommend moving off the onboard FC-AL to a PCI FC-AL
> connection.
>
> /Brian/
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