Re: Disksuite, Sun SSA & Linux (Re: "ckraid" with raidtools)

[Matthew Jacob]

> But some other cards, like Qlogic FC, don't take such approach, as they do
> all the FC4 protocol housekeeping in hardware and are driven as a normal
> SCSI card with a lot of targets.

Actually, in F/W. It is conceivable that somebody could use a QLA card
with a different f/w set and do the FC4 level stuff in software. The
firmware isn't really a 'closed' box.