FreeBSD Support for Fibre Channel Devices

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:06:03PM -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> > isp(4)
> > mpt(4)
> 
> Hrmm, I guess I should phrase the question this way:
> 
> I have installed a Fibre Channel card into a new FreeBSD 8.x box.  I have both isp(4) and mpt(4) are loaded and the device still doesn't appear in /dev.  pciconf shows:
> 
> none2 at pci0:8:1:0: class=0x0c0400 card=0x656c1242 chip=0x15601242 rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00
>  vendor   = 'Jaycor Networks Inc'
>  device   = 'Dual Channel 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel-PCI-X (JNIC-1560)'
>  class    = serial bus
>  subclass = Fibre Channel
> 
> So I'm guessing that this device is unsupported.  So, what I was trying to ascertain from my original question is: does anyone have any FreeBSD experience with a Fibre Channel card that they like under FreeBSD that I can replace this one with?
> 
> Basically I'm asking for a recommendation along the lines of "I have card X and it works beautifully".  :)

I have X card and it workd beautifully.

On ia64 -current I have:

isp0 at pci0:192:1:0:      class=0x0c0400 card=0x12d6103c chip=0x24221077 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'QLogic Corporation'
    device     = 'QLogic PCI to Fibre Channel Host Adapter for QLA2460 (ISP2422)'
    class      = serial bus
    subclass   = Fibre Channel

which gives:

da1 at isp0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 1
da1: <COMPAQ MSA1000 VOLUME 4.32> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device 
da1: 200.000MB/s transfers WWNN 0x500805f3000ec220 WWPN 0x500805f3000ec221 PortID 0x10000
da1: Command Queueing enabled
da1: 69460MB (142255575 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8855C)
da2 at isp0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 2
da2: <COMPAQ MSA1000 VOLUME 4.32> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device 
da2: 200.000MB/s transfers WWNN 0x500805f3000ec220 WWPN 0x500805f3000ec221 PortID 0x10000
da2: Command Queueing enabled
da2: 69460MB (142255575 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8855C)

As you can see my disk array is Compaq MSA1000.


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