From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 26 03:48:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09576 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA09570 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 03:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA24750 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:34:19 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id LAA07224; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:24:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199808260924.LAA07224@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Fiber Channel. In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 25, 98 04:27:28 pm" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:24:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: bigj@nlanr.net, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Matthew Jacob wrote... > > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > 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. > > Yes- the Emulex cards look good- more from an FC/IP point of view > from what I've heard, and also JAYCOR. And, still to be worth > doing, SOCAL SBus cards for the sparc port (:-)). Digital/Compaq also uses them (the LP6000) to drive FCAL RAID arrays. The LP7000 has a considerable performance advantage and is supposed to be compatible on the driver level. > The big issue with all of this will be fabric and multipathing > device naming support. This kind of stuff is basically my charter > at NASA/Ames for a chunk of the next year. Ughh. Good luck. This is mainly vapourware at the moment. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message