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? > > Shachar >
Hi, Well, this HBA is qlogic and its drivers are GPL. Usually its recommended to use the firmware/driver version that the storage system supplier recommend (e.g. EMC, HP, IBM etc.) Tomer ================================================================= 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]
