[2726] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Fiber Channel (FC) support on Linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jakub Jelinek)
Sat Nov 1 11:34:18 1997
From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
To: marcf@cello.hpl.hp.com (Marc Fleischmann)
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 17:29:56 +0100 (MET)
Cc: netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
sparclinux@ms.mff.cuni.cz
In-Reply-To: <199710201826.AA074962004@cello.hpl.hp.com> from "Marc Fleischmann" at Oct 20, 97 11:26:40 am
>
> Are there any plans to support Fiber Channel (FC) cards for Linux?
> FC is an optical network (1 Gb/s arbitrated loop, so far) to attach
> SCSI disks.
>
> Has anybody checked whether FC vendors, such as HP, are willing
> to disclose the I/O specs of their FC card(s)?
>
> I hope that, in general, this hybrid e-mail (SCSI disks + networking)
> is appropriate for the netdev mailing list.
Do you know what HW vendors are making FC cards and SCSI disk arrays
for FC4/SCSI?
I think I have now a clear idea of separating the modules for the SOC/SBUS
with SparcSTORAGE Array (Pluto) configuration support into a generic FC
module which will handle FC4/SCSI as well and then small SCSI drivers on top
of it like Pluto driver, which will just handle things like initial inquiry
and addressing scheme and then low level FC drivers like SOC, but in order
to write it in a nice generic way, it would be better to know at least about
two different FC cards and two different disk arrays.
Cheers,
Jakub
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