Re: problem whit optic fibre adapter (emulex LP952)

[Marco Vaschetto <m.vaschetto@snservice.net>]

Gilles Mocellin ha scritto:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:45:58PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
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> > Marco Vaschetto put forth on 1/20/2010 2:36 PM:
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> [...]
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> > Debian is not a "commercial" distribution.  Fiber channel is only found in
> > commercial environments.  Thus, most of the people around the world using FC
> > adapters with Linux are NOT using Debian Linux, but rather Red Hat Enterprise or
> > SuSE Linux.  Notice I am the only person on this list to try to help you?  And
> > as I previously stated, I've not actually used FC cards with Linux on bare
> > metal.  You need to be talking to an audience that actually has FC experience on
> > bare metal Linux.  You may even try a SuSE or Red Hat mailing list as well.
> >     
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> Sorry but I use Debian on our SAN, with QLogic and Emulex FC cards.
> I have no problems, but use different Emulex models...
> (Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter)
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Hi, on your infrastructure have a optic fiber switch?
I read some think about that have some problem whit emulex card connect 
point to point.


> You're right that with Debian, it is not easy to have the hardware vendor support
> you...
> There support Matirix is so restrictive about firmware and driver
> versions... (HP here)
>   
Tank's for answer.