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To: Roy Sardina who wrote (13527)	1/7/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Craig Stevenson	Respond to of 29386

Roy, I might be better off waiting for Fibre Channel then. I run primarily Novell NetWare, along with a few NT boxes. How are the adapter guys doing on driver optimization? The early days of Fast Ethernet were terrible from a throughput to CPU Utilization standpoint. (My first experiment with Fast Ethernet was in an EISA machine, which exacerbated the problem. I actually got better throughput with regular Ethernet, due to the difference in CPU utilization!) As machines have gotten faster, and problems with the PCI bus got ironed out, things work much better now. How mature are the Fibre Channel drivers? Abended NetWare or blue-screened NT servers are not my idea of a good time. <g> I'm using switched Fast Ethernet to most of my servers and workstations, but there are times when that isn't nearly fast enough. I'd like to implement Fibre Channel from my primary server to the storage units, and from at least one workstation. With the bandwidth available on a gigabit pipe, I should be able to use a hub. Do you have any recommendations on adapters? Adaptec, Emulex, Qlogic, etc.? How about hubs? (Loaded question...<g>) Craig