From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 20 21:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1914037B423 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07295; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:31:08 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:31:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: matthew zeier Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SANs for FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: <20000920202200.M25726@intelenet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, matthew zeier wrote: > > Has anyone worked with FreeBSD in a SAN ? > > I'm trying to track down what sort of fibre channel adapters I might be > able to use. Yes. The only supported adapters at this time are those that use the Qlogic 2100 and Qlogic 2200 chipsets. I have on my list to support the LSI Logic FC909 set sometime soon. Full fabric support is available (in fact is default as of 4.1)- 2200 chipsets come up as a public loop and 2100s as a Private loop that will work on fabrics with switches that do aliasing. Target mode also works. See the isp(4) man page for more details of support. This is all with class 3 frames. There ways to tweak class 2 frames, but some programming knowledge will be necsessary for that. The switches known to work best are Brocade Silkworm II and Ancor SA-8. There is no support at this time for FC-IP. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message