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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:04:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        bigj@nlanr.net, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fiber Channel.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808260803120.31972-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199808260924.LAA07224@yedi.iaf.nl>

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On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote:

> 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. 
> 

Yes, and no. The actual hardware support is coming along and even
the f/w support for fabric logins are around. It just becomes a bit
of a pissing match in the OS arena on how to do this.



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