Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:36:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xiotech Magnitude and QLogic experience? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006221132410.12722-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006221526370.22069-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
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Unfortunately FC isn't as well shaken out as SCSI. It sure is an open standard, but that also means much is left open to interpretration. With respect to this particular device- I have not used it myself. I do know that XIOtech boxes have worked with Qlogic cards. I would recommend that you tell them: "We plan to use Qlogic 2200 cards under FreeBSD" and ask them to allow for demonstration time. I would be delighted to assist resolving any problems that ocur (I am the Qlogic driver writer for FreBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD). -matt On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Mark Powell wrote: > Hi, > We've been presented with a tender for a large-scale storage system > using fibre channel. It's based upon the Xiotech (www.xiotech.com) > Magnitude system. > > http://www.xiotech.com/cgi-bin/magnitude.pl > > It's to be used for storage with Netware and UNIX using differing areas of > the disk. Looks good. > However, I've had no experience of FC before. I notice 4.0S supports the > QLogic cards. I'd like to know whether Magnitude and a QLogic card under > 4.0S would function happily. Is FC as open standard as SCSI? Xiotech do > their own FC cards, but of course they aren't supported. Would the QLogic > be just as good? > Cheers. > > Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building > A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. > Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key > M.S.Powell@salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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