Re: How to configure: FCA 2214 HBA cards on HP DL380 clustersolution

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 16:49 -0400, Tom Sightler wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:23 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:39 +0000, James Marcinek wrote:
> > > The driver rpm package:
> > > 
> > > hp_qla2x00src-8.00.02-17.linux.rpm
> > > 
> > > If the built in drivers work that's great. Just as long as I know what
> > > additional steps I have to take to get it working.
> > 
> > 
> > actually... RHEL4 comes with a version 8 qlogic driver already
> > included... there should be absolutely zero need to use an external
> > one...
> 
> Well, except for the fact that the Qlogic driver included in RHEL4
> appears to have no way to scan the fabric for new LUN's except for
> unloading and reloading the driver (this may have changed in U2, haven't
> checked yet).  This is a pretty critical feature that's previously been
> missing in the built in driver but works trivially with the standard
> Qlogic driver.

We have an IT opened on this and it didn't make U2.  It's supposed to be
on the list for U3, but the last comment in BZ 149294 is that RH won't
fix until it's fixed in upstream.

/Brian/

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