Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:51:25 -0400 From: "Noel A. Ashford" <it.mgr@bhs.bm> To: "Tom Samplonius" <tom@uniserve.com>, <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Qlogic fibre channel support questions Message-ID: <F6D44BE70668B14CB4A701982A55473055E445@BHSMAIL.bhs.local>
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You buying some IBM blades? I have qlogic cards in my blades and did attempt booting from san on HS20's. I had no problem with the Qlogic driver, but there were numerous other issues with FreeBSD and the HS20, more particularly, ACPCI (think I said that right?!) power control, and some other minor issues I don't remember now. I did however manager to get it all installed and working once, then some tech guy screwed the partition up and I lost the initiative to try it all again!!! I tried VMWARE running it and that was extremely easy to do compared to trying FreeBSD direct on that setup. Freebsd 6 (which wasn't out at the time I tried except for Beta) seemed to have the ACPCI issues sorted somewhat, but not perfectly in comparison to 5.x etc. Either way, the short version here is, yes QLOGIC cards and booting from them work fine, if it's an HS20, don't expect a straight forward install!=20 -Noel -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tom Samplonius Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:39 PM To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Qlogic fibre channel support questions I'm planning to buy some IBM servers with Qlogic fibre channel adaptors in=20 them, and I have questions: * Does the isp driver support full fabric? There are some notes in the man=20 pages that fabric support "..may be contingent upon the correct firmware being=20 loaded". Would the FreeBSD ispfw firemware be "correct" for a 23xx card? * Would booting from a Qlogic 23xx fibre channel card work fine? I presume they=20 cards come with a standard BIOS, so this just works? * There is a noted bug in the isp manpage that the driver can get stuck upon=20 boot. I presume this bug is specific to loops, not a fabric? Tom Samplonius VP of Technology Uniserve 604-647-0601 _______________________________________________ freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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