Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:04:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: bigj@nlanr.net, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fiber Channel. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808260803120.31972-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199808260924.LAA07224@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Matthew Jacob wrote... > > > > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > People might also be interested in looking at the Emulex LP6000 and > > > LP7000 cards. Maybe (*big* maybe) I'll have a chance to check one out. > > > > Yes- the Emulex cards look good- more from an FC/IP point of view > > from what I've heard, and also JAYCOR. And, still to be worth > > doing, SOCAL SBus cards for the sparc port (:-)). > > Digital/Compaq also uses them (the LP6000) to drive FCAL RAID arrays. > The LP7000 has a considerable performance advantage and is supposed > to be compatible on the driver level. > > > The big issue with all of this will be fabric and multipathing > > device naming support. This kind of stuff is basically my charter > > at NASA/Ames for a chunk of the next year. > > Ughh. Good luck. This is mainly vapourware at the moment. > Yes, and no. The actual hardware support is coming along and even the f/w support for fabric logins are around. It just becomes a bit of a pissing match in the OS arena on how to do this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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