Leopard Guides: Hardware & Drivers
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel uses a serial architecture to connect mass storage devices to servers and other computers. Fibre Channel interfaces are available for Xserve hardware, and Fibre Channel is the primary interface for Xserve RAID hardware. Developers can use I/O Kit and Mac OS X APIs to create drivers for Fibre Channel hardware and to access files in a SAN. |