Re: Qlogic FC support?

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@nwrain.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:36:49 -0700 (PDT)


Hello Jon, Here is a couple of older pointers Hth

> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:08:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Loveland <cwl@mars.iol.unh.edu>
> Subject: Qlogic ISP2100 Fibre Channel Scsi driver
>
> I added the loadable firmware to the ISP2100 driver and have made a patch
> against v2.1.98 of the kernel available by ftp at
> public.iol.unh.edu/pub/fcc/isp2100-v2.1.96.patch.gz
> or through the web at
> http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fc/fc_linux.html

And

> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:44:27 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
> Subject: Re: Fibre Channel ctrl, any drivers?
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Davide Rossetti wrote:
> > Is there someone working on any Fibre Channel controller driver ?
>
> drivers/fc4 in the CVS tree at vger.rutgers.edu.

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Jon Allen wrote:
> ATTO Technology makes a FibreChannel (FC) card simular to (we would like to
> think better than...) the QLogic QLA2100... (64 bit PCI bus)
>
> My list of questions to all SCSI-Kernel guys:
>
> 1) Is anyone working on FibreChannel for Linux? (university of Minnesota
> is working on GFS for Linux which lends its self to FC.)
>
> 2) Any driver work started for QLogic FC?
>
> 3) FibreChannel - SCSI supports 16K LUNs. Does this hamper Linux's SCSI
> system at all?
>
> ATTO Technology has personel who support Linux, although the OpenSource
> method of doing development is a bit
> hard for some to accept. I would like to work on a Linux version of our
> SCSI and FC products. I could require some help
> to get started....
>
> Jon Allen
> jallen@attotech.com
, JimL
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