From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 26 08:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15061 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (gw100.feral.com [192.67.166.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15048 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:04:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA31997; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:04:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:04:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte cc: bigj@nlanr.net, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fiber Channel. In-Reply-To: <199808260924.LAA07224@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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