Re: Fiberchannel on i386 development?

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@nwrain.net)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:36:28 -0700 (PDT)


Hello Christopher,
Mr. Loveland write the below a few days ago ....
Hth..

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris Loveland wrote:
>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:49:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Chris Loveland <cwl@mars.iol.unh.edu>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Qlogic ISP2100 Fibre Channel Scsi driver
>
> I am making a driver for the Qlogic ISP2100 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
>
> The ISP2100 is a Fibre Channel Processor that is used in the Qlogic
> QLA2100 adapter. The QLA2100 is a SCSI PCI adapter which runs over a Fibre
> Channel Arbitrated Loop. The current version has not been widely tested.
> It has worked well on the two Linux machines which I have access to but
> should be viewed as fairly untested code. The patch was made against the
> v2.1.96 kernel. At this point I would be interested in any experience you
> have when trying to use this code. Obviously I would like to hear about
> any problems you might have but I would also like to know if the driver
> worked successfully for you.
>
> Chris Loveland

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Christopher MacLean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently looking for a fiberchannel driver for linux/i386, does
> anyone know of any development in this area? I was specifically looking
> at the Adaptec F940 specifically, but any leads are appreciated.
>
> Thanx
>
> Chris , JimL
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