Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:09:58 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fibrechannel support in 4.9 ? Message-ID: <20031112160958.GA69808@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <E1AJxEl-000OOs-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1AJxEl-000OOs-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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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
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