From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 18 17:24:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A4C37B424 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13PwR8-0000sM-00; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:24:34 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:24:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Sean Lutner Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fibre Channel Cards? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Sean Lutner wrote: > Currently, I've got a bunch of Sun boxes hooked up to a big EMC 3930 disk > array via Fibre Channel cards. I'd love to be able to run FreeBSD in > production, so my question is whether or not there are drivers out there > for any fibre channel cards? A cluster or just a bunch of beefy x86 > machines can get the same power as a few Sun boxes, and probably cheaper. > > Any help is appreciated > > Sean Checking the harware compatibility lists would be a good start... The QLogic fibre channel cards have been supported for a long time (isp driver). See "man isp". Probably the same controllers that the Sun servers use. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message