I'll try to find some 2Gb HBA in the lab and give it a try with a recent build...
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 20:39, dk <[email protected]> wrote: > it is good to know that at least some Emulex HBAs work with the latest > edition of opensolaris (2009.06), but 4GB HBAs are over $500 each. If someone > wants to test opensolaris and target mode for a proof of concept, it is not > really feasible to spend thousand $$$ for something that may not even work. > Considering that comstar used to work fine in previous versions of > opensolaris, I am surprised that it doesn't in latest edition of opensolaris, > and if you read the forums, you can see that I am not the only one who has > this type of problems with emulex/comstar/opensolaris. > Emulex LP9002 HBAs that I have don't even work as initiators in Opensolaris > 2009.06, at most I can get them to show up as G or L ports on the SAN switch, > and regardless of what I do, they always show as offline when I run 'fcinfo > hba-port' command. > > There also seems to be a number of outstanding bugs possibly related to > similar issues like mine, and some of these bugs have not been addressed for > months. > > My question is very simple, and that is if we should expect continued support > for Emulex HBAs in target mode in opensolaris, or is it going to be hit and > miss to find HBA which works with comstar? > > I am willing to help in troubleshooting the issues with Emulex HBAs and emlxs > driver if someone from comstar or emulex driver dev. team is willing to tell > me what they want me to test. Cheers. -- Pablo Méndez Hernández _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
