From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rolf Eike Beer Subject: Re: cpqfc gone - all compay RA4X00 Array now useless in linux? Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:23:26 +0100 Message-ID: <200602061923.31944@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4379742.xtMj3YIHro"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.sf-mail.de ([62.27.20.61]:166 "EHLO mail.sf-mail.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932275AbWBFSXk (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:23:40 -0500 Received: from mp-pc92.informatik.uni-mannheim.de ([::ffff:134.155.64.118]) (auth=eike-kernel@sf-tec.de) by mail.sf-mail.de (Qsmtpd 0.9) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA for ; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:23:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Flaschberger --nextPart4379742.xtMj3YIHro Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 18:46 schrieben Sie: >Hey, > >I'm very very sorry that the cpqfc driver is gone because it was the >_only_ one which supported the now very cheap Compaq FiberChannel Array >RA4X00. > >With all other FC HBA's the logical volumes (LUN's) are not visible. >---snip--- >5. Compaq RA4x00 firmware version 2.54 and later supports SSP (Selective >Storage Presentation), which maps LUNs to a WWN. If RA4x00 firmware prior >2.54 (e.g. older controller) is used, or the FC HBA is replaced (another W= WN >is used), logical volumes on the RA4x00 will no longer be visible. >---snap--- > >So... there are 3 possibilities: >1. Repair the cpqfc driver and but it again into linux? The driver is a horrible hack lacking too many of really needed error=20 handling. >2. Find out, how to get the RA4x00 arrays with othet HBA's running; I > searched about 1 week in Google, no way.. We're working on it. The RA4x00 do things normal arrays don't or so. I'm no= t=20 yet familiar enough with this to know exactly what is needed to beat this t= o=20 work again. >3. Aeh.. use... 2.4, use... other OS? The 2.4 might work. And I might have some patches for you to make it a bit= =20 less broken. But don't expect too much from it. >Hope to find a way... and not only kicking a working driver because of not >as nice code and to much stack memory. It was not really working, at least not when I (remotely via IRC) tested it= =20 last time (some month ago). Eike --nextPart4379742.xtMj3YIHro Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD55QjXKSJPmm5/E4RAhbXAKCWfOKfeEAXnwHEZD2e6ncV1NSEhQCePjhw AUNm9Wfy7zjN865JDPwHrZM= =C3yH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4379742.xtMj3YIHro--