Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:55:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Jambi <bigj@nlanr.net> Subject: Re: Fiber Channel. Message-ID: <XFMail.980826105541.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808251213480.29610-100000@feral-gw>
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Matthew Jacob, On 25-Aug-98 you wrote:
>
> The Qlogic Fibre Channel card (2100) is mostly supported- it's the
> same driver as the SCSI driver. It's fabric support is minimal
> (uh, not there yet) right now, but a plain loop or a PLDA seems to work
> as
> long as nothing complicated in terms of PLOGI parameters seems to be
> expected.
>
> I don't know the PM2554UWF, although if someone got me one and specs
> for it, I'd likely do a driver for it.
I am already working on it. It is an i2o based controller, and that raises
several issues; FreeBSD declared decision not to do anything in i20 is one
of the issues. I2o licensing is another. The driver will be ready in a
couple of months.
>
> I'm also planning to do the Adaptec F9{4,5}0 sooner or later.
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jambi wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> > We are thinking about building a little data crunching farm which
> > will
> > be a whole bunch of FreeBSD machines. We were offered a fiber channel
> > controller as our current problem is in IO (having to parse serially
> > huge
> > network dumps...what a pain). I was looking around the FreeBSD FAQ etc
> > and could find no reference to a supported Fiber Channel controllers.
> > Question: Does the DPT PM2554UWF have support in the FreeBSD kernel?
> > Is
> > CAM supporting it?
> >
> > 10x
> > Jambi
> > _______________________________________________
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Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
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Simon Shapiro
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