Re: [PLUG] Linux fibre channel?

[John Von Essen <john@essenz.com>]

Mike,

The Qlogic Fiber channel HBA's work very well under linux. Like the
QLA2340 - drivers are included in base linux kernel.

-John

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Michael C. Toren wrote:

> Does anyone on the list have much experience with fibre channel, or feel
> comfortable recommending a particular fibre channel PCI card for use with
> Linux?  I'm investigating the possible purchase of an Apple Xserv RAID
> array (http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/), which appears to be an
> excellent value for large, external storage, but which will require fibre
> channel to interface with...
>
> Thanks,
> -mct
>
> --
> perl -e'$u="\4\5\6";sub H{8*($_[1]%79)+($_[0]%8)}sub G{vec$u,H(@_),1}sub S{vec
> ($n,H(@_),1)=$_[2]}$_=q^{P`clear`;for$iX){PG($iY)?"O":" "forX8);P"\n"}for$iX){
> forX8){$c=scalar grep{G@$_}[$i-1Y-1Z-1YZ-1Y+1ZY-1ZY+1Z+1Y-1Z+1YZ+1Y+1];S$iY,G(
> $iY)?$c=~/[23]/?1:0:$c==3?1:0}}$u=$n;select$M,$C,$T,.2;redo}^;s/Z/],[\$i/g;s/Y
> /,\$_/xg;s/X/(0..7/g;s/P/print+/g;eval' #     Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net>
>
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