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

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:58:24PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

Did the failover functionality make it into U2?

        .../Ed

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