[2902] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Fibre channel anyone? / User level scsi util ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jakub Jelinek)
Fri Dec 5 03:35:02 1997
From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
To: mikhail@netcom.com (Mikhail Sukhar)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:23:40 +0100 (MET)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199712041723.JAA10102@netcom.netcom.com> from "Mikhail Sukhar" at Dec 4, 97 09:23:13 am
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have couple of questions regarding scsi under linux.
>
> 1) Is there a user level utility which allow to send any
> scsi cdb to the chosen device?
>
> 2) Have anybody stated any fibre channel work for linux?
Yes, we have a set of drivers for:
a) generic Fibre Channel
b) FCP SCSI
c) Serial Optican Channel card / SBUS (low-level driver)
d) SparcSTORAGE array (PLUTO) driver (high-level driver)
It works, though some performance issues and error recovery has to be
solved.
(As illustration a piece from my messages):
soc.c:v1.0 24/Nov/97 Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz), Jiri Hanika (geo@ff.cuni.cz)
soc0 port A: ONLINE
soc0 port A message: SSA100 Firmware version 2.0(e) 031795 Fri Mar 17 11:09:5
PLUTO: Total of 1 SparcSTORAGE Arrays found
scsi1 : SUN SparcSTORAGE Array 1.0 fw 2.0 serial 000000753B1E 6x5 on soc0 port A
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: SUN Model: SSA100 Rev: 1.0
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1080E SUN1.05 Rev: 5150
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 1, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1080E SUN1.05 Rev: 5150
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi1, channel 2, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1080E SUN1.05 Rev: 5150
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi1, channel 3, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1080E SUN1.05 Rev: 5150
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sde at scsi1, channel 4, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1080E SUN1.05 Rev: 5150
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi1, channel 5, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: CONNER Model: CFP1080E SUN1.05 Rev: 5150
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdg at scsi1, channel 6, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2110812 [1030 MB] [1.0 GB]
sdb: sdb1 sdb3
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2110812 [1030 MB] [1.0 GB]
sdc: sdc1 sdc3
SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2110812 [1030 MB] [1.0 GB]
sdd: sdd1 sdd3
SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2110812 [1030 MB] [1.0 GB]
sde: sde1 sde3
SCSI device sdf: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2110812 [1030 MB] [1.0 GB]
sdf: sdf1 sdf3
SCSI device sdg: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2110812 [1030 MB] [1.0 GB]
sdg: sdg1 sdg2 sdg3
REGISTER_DEV sdb1 to md0 done
REGISTER_DEV sdc1 to md0 done
REGISTER_DEV sdd1 to md0 done
REGISTER_DEV sde1 to md0 done
REGISTER_DEV sdf1 to md0 done
raid5: device 08:11 operational as raid disk 0
raid5: device 08:21 operational as raid disk 1
raid5: device 08:31 operational as raid disk 2
raid5: device 08:41 operational as raid disk 3
raid5: device 08:51 operational as raid disk 4
raid5: allocated 10598kB for 09:00
raid5: raid level 5 set 09:00 active with 5 out of 5 devices, algorithm 2
md: updating raid superblock on device 08:11, sb_offset == 1025536
md: updating raid superblock on device 08:21, sb_offset == 1025536
md: updating raid superblock on device 08:31, sb_offset == 1025536
md: updating raid superblock on device 08:41, sb_offset == 1025536
md: updating raid superblock on device 08:51, sb_offset == 1025536
Cheers,
Jakub
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Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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