iscsi support

Matthew Jacob lydianconcepts at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 10:43:05 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.

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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