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Subject: Re: SAN disk with freebsd?
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Hi Aaron,

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:10, Aaron Wohl wrote:
> Anyone using a storage area network with freebsd (or linux)?  Anything to
> recommend as working well or to stay way from?  

I've had FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE with a QLA2200 card connected to an IBM ESS
(Shark) through IBM 2109-S16 switches (Brocade 3800) working very well. 
You have to tell the Shark to only use 1 interface for that host (we
have 3 per Shark) as there is no dual pathing code yet for FreeBSD.


Carl.