Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 23:10:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: bigj@nlanr.net, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fiber Channel. Message-ID: <199808252110.XAA01698@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808251213480.29610-100000@feral-gw> from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 25, 98 12:16:38 pm"
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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.
W/
As Matthew Jacob wrote...
> The Qlogic Fibre Channel card (2100) is mostly supported- it's the
> same driver as the SCSI driver. It's fabric support is minimal
> (uh, not there yet) right now, but a plain loop or a PLDA seems to work as
> long as nothing complicated in terms of PLOGI parameters seems to be
> expected.
>
> I don't know the PM2554UWF, although if someone got me one and specs
> for it, I'd likely do a driver for it.
>
> I'm also planning to do the Adaptec F9{4,5}0 sooner or later.
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jambi wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> > We are thinking about building a little data crunching farm which will
> > be a whole bunch of FreeBSD machines. We were offered a fiber channel
> > controller as our current problem is in IO (having to parse serially huge
> > network dumps...what a pain). I was looking around the FreeBSD FAQ etc
> > and could find no reference to a supported Fiber Channel controllers.
> > Question: Does the DPT PM2554UWF have support in the FreeBSD kernel? Is
> > CAM supporting it?
Wilko
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