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To: janski who wrote (17066)	7/8/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

janski, I think the key line from the Brocade/STK release yesterday was: "StorageTek's customers will benefit from the StorageNet Fibre Channel Switch 4000's exclusive, industry-first translative mode that lets fabric-attached servers access private loop drives, the most common form of disk product found on corporate networks." My interpretation of this is that they are using a non-FC standard approach to access private loops from a fabric. By definition public rather than private loops are accessed from the fabric. The MKII supports both public and private loop. Even though Brocade actually talks about the superiority of switches over loops - this translative mode may be a strong argument from their sales staff. I have contacted some high end storage folks to see if the loops in their devices can be public or private - but nobody is responding to me so far. This is certainly a question for the conference call. George D.