From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jun 22 11:36:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AD637B64F for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23812; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:36:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 11:36:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mark Powell Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xiotech Magnitude and QLogic experience? In-Reply-To: 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 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