> I've been out of town at the Intel Developers Forum for awhile but I'd
> like to post some notes on FC and the Interphase 5526 HBA. There are 2 drivers
> available for the 5526. One developed by Interphase (I did the linux port) and
> one available from UNH (University of New Hampshire) Interoperability
> Labs. The UNH driver is available on the 2.2.12 release and is configured
> under the networking side.
>
> The latest release of the Interphase driver does not support IP, but the
> next release will. The UNH driver does support both SCSI and IP but I do not
> know if simultneous traffic is allowed. I sort of beta sited the UNH driver
> (written by Vineet Abraham) but only the SCSI side. Therefore I cannot
> vouch for simultaneous activity.
>
> As to the subject of whether or not IP and SCSI are desireable on the
> same interface, we have several large customers who use NT in this
> mode and are fairly happy to reduce the # of HBA's in they have in the system
> for high speed IO.
Thanks for the update on the drivers. I've got a page of HW that the GFS
group recommends for FC and/or GFS at:
http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu/Pages/EquipmentPages/equip.html
I'm going to link the above note to the page under the Interphase card if
you don't mind.
Thanks,
brassow
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