[CLUE-Tech] Linux and SANs

[gager at mho.com]

Thanks for the reply. Our software correctly identifies the SAN volumes if we 
are using QLogics or Emulex cards so no worries there. 
I was wondering if people in production environments typically compile a kernel 
with the drivers for the card or if they use modprobe as we do here. My hunch 
is that people are compiling kernels which renders our test environment invalid.
Do have anyt ideas on this?

Thanks again.

RG 





> Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here on the list has AS 2.1 boxes 
running in 
> > Fibre Channel SANs?
> 
> The City of Arvada was trying to do this. The biggest trouble they had
> was that their SAN cards did not have drivers compiled for that kernel.
> Damn binary only drivers. Once they got some drivers for AS kernels the
> cards presented SCSI hard drives as if they were local drives.
> 
> Check with the vendor of your SAN to see what card compatibility you
> have and then grep the Hardware-HOWTO to see if it gives any info. The
> best trick I've used it to type "linux <your card model number here>"
> into google. That usually brings up one other unlucky sap trying to do
> the same thing. :)
> 
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> JStanley <miah at miah.org>
> http://www.slavewage.com/
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