Re: Dumb question: Which is "better" SCSI or IDE disks? Fibre Channel

David Teigland (teigland@lcse.umn.edu)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:51:04 -0600 (CST)

> Talking of which and frantically heading back on topic - what is the current
> status on the Qlogic fibrechannel cards ?

> They have at least 3 models, but there isn't any fibre
> channel adapter supported under Linux (including 2.1.x),
> is there?

> Im told the GFS folks have some code but dunno if its in
> general circulation yet.

The Qlogic QLA2100 fibrechannel adapters work fine. A Linux driver for
it has been written by Chris Loveland: www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fc
Recent updates of it are available at gfs.lcse.umn.edu/pub/GFS/FC-drivers
The driver will support fabrics shortly, according to Chris.

David Teigland
teigland@lcse.umn.edu

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