Re: Bridging fc to scsi for NetApp filer backups

We have a filer (R150) that uses fiber to connect to an L700 via a crossroad
bridge (1 Gig 1/f).
No problems so far, but we don't have  a fiber switch in between,
just R150-> crossroad.-> tape drives
Performance averages 18995 KB/s
-G

"Faeandar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:06:09 +0100, "Rene Koehnen-Wiesemes"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Performance blows, every weekend when we run fulls something goes into
> >> the weeds, and everytime (but once) it's been the bridge.
> >>
> >
> >Please provide us with more details about the problems you have.
> >
> >Rene
> >
>
> Well, they're all over the board but they always start with
> performance dropping to it's knees.  The bridge has very little in the
> way of online diags so inevitably the solution is reboot the bridge.
> Everything from buffer overflows to mis-presenting scsi id's.
>
> I'm looking more for information from people who already have this
> sort of setup and what they think of it.  Not necessarily a bridge but
> filers using fiber to backup.
> Ideally I'd go stright to fiber drives but SDLT has no native fiber
> yet.
>
> ~F