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From: Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>
Subject: Re: rdac mode on SLES10SP1
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:12:14 +0200
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* Kirill Cherkashin

> Could you advise me on next matter.
> We have DS4800 connected to SLES10&9. At the moment we're using 'native'
> IBM  rdac driver but we're going to soon jump to Linux mpio.
> According to Novell's support site in SP1(with kernel 2.6.16)  MPIO
> would be supported by in rdac mode.
> 
> 
> However, here I found  that it should happened only with 2.6.23 kernel.

  The RDAC hardware handler is included (in a usable form) in the
 kernel.org kernels starting from 2.6.23-rc4, if I recall correctly.

  I assume SuSE has simply backported it to their 2.6.16 kernel.  I know
 Red Hat has done the same for RHEL5.1, at least.

-- 
Tore Anderson