From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 08:10:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1F816A4CE for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139B143FE9 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hACG9www009325; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:09:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hACG9w0P069824; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:09:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hACG9w2k069823; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:09:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:09:58 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Pete French Message-ID: <20031112160958.GA69808@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fibrechannel support in 4.9 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:10:02 -0000 On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:48:55PM +0000, Pete French wrote: > A big step into the unknonw here for me as I have never used fibre channel > before. reading through the dosc iit would seem that it is very similar > to SCSI in concept. We have apair of machines currently booting from > a RAID array using HVD SCSI. Thepla is to replace this with a fibre channel > RAID array, and thus to replace the HVD cards with some fibre channel interface > cards, but otherwise keep the setup identical. > > Does anyone have any pointers to good documentation on this ? Are there > any good recommendations for4-STABLE supported cards, and is the fact I want > to boot from one going to be an issue ? Booting I never tried. But the way forward are the Qlogic cards, driven by the isp(4) driver written by Matt Jacob (mjacob@freebsd.org). The man page lists the supported card models. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org