On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:26:44PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend to me a Fiber channel storage device (HBA) that has > open source drivers in Linux? I am being offered something called > "FC2-133" (a.k.a 24p0960). Some initial research shows that the Linux > drivers for this adapter are binary only, which means I'm looking into a > series of kernel compilations, much prayer, and things not working. It > also means I'm locked to one or two specific distros. I would rather not > be in this mess. > > I'm wondering what are other people doing in that respect? What hardware > do you use? I saw that a company called "Emulex" is producing open > source drivers for kernel 2.6 series for their HBAs. These do not appear > to be part of the actual vanilla kernel, but are shipped with Suse. I'm > wondering whether anyone has any experience with that?
We use Emulex lp10000. There is a driver for it, named lpfc, built into recent 2.6 kernels. We use RHEL3 (2.4) which also has it. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
