On 26 Nov 2001 at 12:12, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there are any issues with the 50 micron cables as > opposed to the 62.5 micron cables and 3590 drives. Taking into consideration > these will be on a SAN soon but for now direct connect. We only need to run > about 50 ft between computer and drives.
I can't speak directly to 3590 drives, but FC supports both 50/125 and 62.5/125 cables. The difference is in the distance the cables can be run. I believe the distances supported are 500m for 50/125 and 300m for 62.5/125. I have fiber channel connections running on both, although only to disk subsystems (emc and ibm). I think both also work with gigabit ethernet.
