Update: Qlogic finally managed to donate one iSCSI HBA to the OpenBSD project.
I'd like to thank everybody who participated in emailing Qlogic - this step applied the required pressure so they finally kept their promise. Stephan. On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:52 +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > "Coincidentally", I have just received an update from QLogic in which > they emphasize their will to ship us the promised HBAs. Please pause > your efforts in sending emails to QLogic for now - it seems it already > has helped a lot. > > I will update you as soon as I hear back from them, which should be end > of this week. > > Thanks guys. > > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:59 +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > > In October 2007 I have established contact with QLogic, to investigate > > whether they could help us in making iSCSI HBAs work in OpenBSD by > > donating some hardware and by providing free programming documentation. > > > > o;?Unfortunately, Qlogic has chosen to be difficult. This means, I am > > forced to make this private communication public to show our user base > > the truth about how I and all OpenBSD people have been led along and > > lied to by QLogic. Now it's up to us (=you) to show that we won't put up > > with that. > > > > This is the original email conversation between me and QLogic, mainly > > Pompey S. Nagra, product manager iSCSI HBAs: > > > > http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~stephan/qlogic-lies.txt > > > > After you have read this page, please send an email to the following > > people, cite this conversation and request (politely) shipping of the > > promised hardware. Do not cite any developer names, QLogic very well > > knows who we are and where they should ship the HBAs to (but do cite my > > name and the link to the converstation): > > > > Pompey S. Nagra : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > o;?David Clark: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Amit Vashi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Please make this issue as public as possible. It would be nice to also > > have it on undeadly and other media.
