Qlogic fibre channel support questions

[Tom Samplonius]

   I'm planning to buy some IBM servers with Qlogic fibre channel adaptors in 
them, and I have questions:

* Does the isp driver support full fabric?  There are some notes in the man 
pages that fabric support "..may be contingent upon the correct firmware being 
loaded".  Would the FreeBSD ispfw firemware be "correct" for a 23xx card?

* Would booting from a Qlogic 23xx fibre channel card work fine?  I presume they 
cards come with a standard BIOS, so this just works?

* There is a noted bug in the isp manpage that the driver can get stuck upon 
boot.  I presume this bug is specific to loops, not a fabric?


Tom Samplonius
VP of Technology
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