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Re: FiberChannel cards and Linux SCSI support?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Jacob)
Wed Jul 26 18:37:46 2000

Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:31:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com
To:	Dan Jones <djones@valinux.com>
cc:	Steve Wampler <sbw@tapestry.tuc.noao.edu>,
	linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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Yes, I'll speak to this. There has been a 3-way discussion with Chris, myself
and Qlogic on this subject- unfortunately with nothing fully resolved at this
time.


>On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Dan Jones wrote:

> Steve Wampler wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone in the group recommend a good, PCI-based, FC card
> > with SCSI drivers that either support 2.2.14 (and is likely to have
> > 2.4.x drivers) or makes the driver source available so we can
> > attempt a port?
> > 
> It's all been said, but I'll confirm that the first place I look
> for FC cards is the GFS support page. That being said, there can
> be a little bit of confusion, since there are 3 Qlogic drivers.
> Last I knew, I heard secondhand that Qlogic and Chris Loveland 
> were talking with the final objective being that Qlogic would take 
> over the driver support. I know that Qlogic has decided to fully
> support linux. I am not suggesting that you should necessarily 
> select Qlogic over Interphase.
> 
> http://www.globalfilesystem.org/Pages/EquipmentPages/equip.html
> 
> -- 
> Dan Jones, Manager, Storage Products          VA Linux Systems
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