HPE Community
Operating System - HP-UX
1845904 Members
4427 Online
110250 Solutions
New Discussion

Gigabit Ethernet on a T600 server?

 
Pasha_2
Occasional Advisor

‎08-15-2001 10:21 AM

‎08-15-2001 10:21 AM

Gigabit Ethernet on a T600 server?

Is HP Planning on supporting Gigabit Ethernet on T600 servers?
Thanks!
0 Kudos
Reply
2 REPLIES 2
Angus Crome
Honored Contributor

‎08-15-2001 11:06 AM

‎08-15-2001 11:06 AM

Re: Gigabit Ethernet on a T600 server?

Although it is possible to install a Gigabit HSC card in a T-HSC expansion card. I don't think they ever built a driver for it. The reason being (if I remember correctly) that the bus architecture to the expander card couldn't handle the throughput. The same reasoning holds true for HSC Differential SCSI, if you hang more than 7 disks off it. That is one of the reasons they used these expansion cards to build out the HP-PB expanders. You can hang a lot of disks that way.
As for future plans, I don't know. They may have overcome the throughput issues, but I don't see them trying to prolong the already long life of the T-Class.
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't - Author Unknown
0 Kudos
Reply
Brian Hackley
Honored Contributor

‎08-15-2001 04:26 PM

‎08-15-2001 04:26 PM

Re: Gigabit Ethernet on a T600 server?

Pasha,

I'm sorry to have to report, that the product support plan for the HSC A4926A Gigabit card shows support only for D, R and K class servers, not for T Class. It might be possible to get one working, but it wouldn't be supported by HP. Sorry this don't help all that much,

-> Brian Hackley
Ask me about telecommuting!
0 Kudos
Reply
The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. By using this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Rules of Participation.