Re: QLogics 23xx driver

[Al Tobey <albert tobey priority-health com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:39, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:05:34PM -0500, Greg Swift wrote:
> > What Kernel level are you talking about?
> > 
> > The new qla23xx (version 7.00.03) has been released about a week ago and
> > supports 2.4.21-15 (the default with RHEL3 update2) as far as EMC is
> > concerned.
> 
> It's been out for a while (the source tarball is from April) from QLogic
> but it hasn't yet replaced the qla23xx driver in the Red Hat-supplied
> kernel (2.4.21-15.0.3).

We're running the HP supplied driver here (for EVA and dual-port HBA
support) built from the included source and it's great.   You can even
do an rpmbuild --rebuild and get a driver RPM for all your systems.  
The best part is being able to recognize new luns without a
reboot/reload.  Now if only RH would support an enterprise-class
filesystem (i.e. can be grown without unmounting).

Definately pick up the hp_fibreutils package.

>         .../Ed
> 
> > Now of course that is by Dell/EMC standards....
> 
> And I'm after the HP standards which is blessing the same release that
> Red Hat will be releasing.
> 
> > -Greg
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
> > [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 14:59
> > To: taroon (RHEL 3)
> > Subject: QLogics 23xx driver
> > 
> > I've heard from Red Hat Tech Support that the next QLogic 23xx driver is
> > supposed to be in the next kernel release and is currently in QA.  I
> > *need* this driver to support EVA storage.  Tech Support won't give me
> > an ETA for the kernel release.  
> > 
> > 1.  Can anybody venture a guess as to when I can hope to see the new
> > kernel?  Is a beta kernel available and appropriate?  This is for a
> > brand new server and some production users will be migrated to it from
> > our old 6.2 system over the next week or two.  If a beta was available
> > now so that I start my testing, that should work for me.
> > 
> > 2.  My choices are basicallly to either download the driver from QLogic
> > and run with that, or take the wrath of my users and tell them they
> > can't have their server until Red Hat has released the driver.  I don't
> > like either option given that the new kernel will give me a supported
> > solution shortly.
> > 
> > Thoughts and comments appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> >         .../Ed
> > 
> > --
> > Ed Wilts, RHCE
> > Mounds View, MN, USA
> > mailto:ewilts ewilts org
> > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
> >



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