Lyle Merdan wrote:
After talking to some people it doesn't look like the QLA2100 or QLA2200 HBA
drivers would be made opensource for opensolaris. There just is not a good
business case to open the source code for either family of HBAs on Solaris.
Lyle, we have licensing agreements with QLogic w
After talking to some people it doesn't look like the QLA2100 or QLA2200 HBA
drivers would be made opensource for opensolaris. There just is not a good
business case to open the source code for either family of HBAs on Solaris. If
someone wants an open source driver they are stuck with Linux. As
I have a $500 Apple PCI-X HBA (with a SFP connector) in a V20z (Solaris 10 GA
3/05) using the LSI Logic 64-bit drivers for Solaris 10/x86 (the Apple card is
a OEM-ed LSI7202XP). It has been running for about a month now. My home
directory is on it, so I would know if there was a problem :-)
We
Ferdinand O. Tempel wrote:
Quoting "James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
...
Does this mean the package which Sun distributes contains the binary solaris
driver as built by QLogic, or does it mean that Sun built the driver from
source under license of QLogic which now you're not allowed to
Quoting "James C. McPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > of use from a simple FC-AL setup. And I do. So just for people like me:
> Don't
> > simply drop support for these devices, but throw the sources out there!
>
> Sun doesn't have the source; we licensed the driver from QLogic... and
> they've
> EO
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, James C. McPherson wrote:
> Ferdinand O. Tempel wrote:
> ...
> > Shame. The 2100 (I think I paid $15 for it on eBay) is a cheap entry level
> > controller. I have one, and I attach it to a 3 disk "array" either directly
> > or a FC hub. This is all done with an AL though, so n
Ferdinand O. Tempel wrote:
...
Shame. The 2100 (I think I paid $15 for it on eBay) is a cheap entry level
controller. I have one, and I attach it to a 3 disk "array" either directly
or a FC hub. This is all done with an AL though, so nothing "real" there. But
still, there's a market for it. Peopl
> The 2100 doesn't support fabric it only supported
> loop mode
> So you really can't use 2100 with a SAN only with
> older storage and point to point connections
> this is the reason the support for it has
> disappeared
Shame. The 2100 (I think I paid $15 for it on eBay) is a cheap entry level
c
The 2100 doesn't support fabric it only supported loop mode
So you really can't use 2100 with a SAN only with older storage and point to
point connections
this is the reason the support for it has disappeared
Rgds
Robin
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