Fibrechannel support in 4.9 ?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:48:55PM +0000, Pete French wrote:
> A big step into the unknonw here for me as I have never used fibre channel
> before. reading through the dosc iit would seem that it is very similar
> to SCSI  in concept. We have apair of machines currently booting from
> a RAID array using HVD SCSI. Thepla is to replace this with a fibre channel
> RAID array, and thus to replace the HVD cards with some fibre channel interface
> cards, but otherwise keep the setup identical.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers to good documentation on this ? Are there
> any good recommendations for4-STABLE supported cards, and is the fact I want
> to boot from one going to be an issue ?

Booting I never tried. But the way forward are the Qlogic cards, driven
by the isp(4) driver written by Matt Jacob (mjacob at freebsd.org). The man
page lists the supported card models.

Wilko

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