Re: [Q] ultrapenguin-1.1 on UE4000

[Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>]

I have a SOC+ card in a sun4m and a wad of FC disks. If I had time, I'd
write the SOC+ driver- but I really don't have much time. I have the
interest in doing a FC-4 (FCP)- but my current jobs and contracts make it
difficult to find time to even finish the Qlogic FC driver for linux
which has been 'ready to go except for Linux 2.1 && sparc/alpha
crosscheck' for months now.



On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > Ugh, are all of your disks hung off of the fibre channel cards?
> 
> Don't worry. At least the CD is apparently on some ESP, but I think E?000
> boxes don't have FC-AL internal disks, only E?500 boxes do.
> I've started already looking into SOC+ manual, plus have read most of the
> FC-AL, FC-PLDA and other stuff, but still don't have enough knowledge to
> write the socal and fcal drivers without access to the physical hardware.
> I should be getting a E3500 in 3 month, but even there I doubt it will have
> any FC-AL disks in it, as it is pretty costy (7000$ to buy necessary boards
> and one single FC-AL 9GB disk :( ).
> 
> > Crap... Jakub, you know why it fails if this is true.
> > 
> > One quick hack would be to hook up a spare SCSI disk to one of the
> > normal scsi controllers on the machine, or else wait for a fix from
> > either myself or Jakub.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Jakub
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