iscsi support

Danny Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Fri Oct 7 02:58:17 PDT 2005


> I kept on getting pinged by the QLogic iSCSI guys for support, but it just
> wasn't time for me to spend on it.
> 
is there any way to get some info? i have a TOE/Qlogic card on my library
for some time now and might get temped to write some lines ...
(my iscsi initiator is almost ready for a 2nd round of tests).

danny


> On 10/3/05, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Atrens wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I'm spec'ing a daughterboard for a card that's possibly to be running
> > > FreeBSD (or OpenBSD) and am more than curious about the state of iSCSI
> > > support in *BSD.
> > >
> > > In particular, the Qlogic ISP4010 is one part being considered, but
> > > there are
> > > other parts from Broadcom, etc.
> > >
> > > Googling around I've seen iscsi patches for qlogic isp4xxx available for
> > > linux, but the BSD situation is a bit more murky. (At least for me!)
> > >
> > > Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so please contact me directly.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> >
> > I'm not aware of any hardware iSCSI support in the works for FreeBSD
> > right now. The estimate for getting something done would depend
> > largely on the requirements of the hardware, of course, but also on
> > how well it needs to integrate with the CAM/SCSI layer. CAM really is
> > parallel-SCSI centric; things like iSCSI can sit on top of it, but some
> > infrastructure work really is needed to make them more than just hacks.
> > But, if you have hardware and specs available, I'm sure that there are
> > people on this list that would be interested in helping get something
> > done, myself included.
> >
> > Scott
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