Re: Sun 1 gb dual s/bus fibre card X6757A (375-3048)
On Thursday 25 May 2006 02:36, john hedge wrote:
> Pat,
>
> Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I posted the card's id
> incorrectly. I subsequently requested information on 540-2989 which
> Chris responded to in like fashion, to whit:
>
> "This is a FC-100 card which uses the FCAL driver.
> The FC and FCAL drivers have not worked since 2.2.x and are
> currently unmaintained.
>
> It sounds like a similar story to yours.
What you have is a SOC+ card, which uses the "fcal" driver. I'd
forgotten what the name of the actual driver is...
> Q. Have you heard a similar progress story on this as well? (I run
> debian on all my Sun hardware except the Sparcserver which is using
> the fibre channel. Unhappily, I have to run Solaris on this as it's
> the only o/s with drivers to my knowledge)
Yes. If you want more info, try asking on sparclinux@vger.kernel.org;
that's the actual sparc kernel mailing list.
The most recent update on the progress is below.
Pat
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Re: Sun Enterprise 6500. 10xUltraSPARC/400MHz, 10Gb mem
Date: Friday 24 March 2006 17:33
From: "David S. Miller" "David S. Miller" <davem.davemloft.net>
To: lowen.pari.edu
Cc: dennis.jenkins.sbcglobal.net, sparclinux.vger.kernel.org
From: Lamar Owen <lowen.pari.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:08:46 -0500
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 23:08, Dennis Jenkins wrote:
> > I have a 8 processor E3500. Linux (Gentoo for me)
> > works great, except that it CAN NOT use the internal
> > Fiber Channel disk array.
>
> Where did this information come from? I also have an E3500, and four
> 36.4GB drives....
The SOC/SOC+ drivers are known to be busted. Ben Collins and
I have taken stabs recently to try and get it working with
only limited luck.
And even if we get it working, folks will need to extract the SOC/SOC+
firmware out of the Solaris driver by hand and include it into a
custom build of the Linux driver in order to get a working setup.
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