Grant, don't worry about me asking you for HP/Linux product plans. Due to our relationship with HP we keep up with it pretty well. :-) Your answer below is what I have been gathering as the reason I can't get the card to "see" the disk array. As you mentioned, the module loads and unloads but it doesn't do much after that. :-) No biggie, we just called the support center and got them to send us the qlogic based boards as replacements. :-) Hopefully the driver in the kernel will work. Thanks for the help!! -Brent Brent Clements HPC Technology Specialist Information Technology Rice University On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:13:29PM -0500, Brent M. Clements wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a driver for the > > HP Tach XL2 Fibre Channel card? > > I've been asking the same question for over 3 years. > Agilent considered supporting one but didn't follow through. > cpqfc driver seems to have support for the XL2 based card sold by > Compaq (pre-merger HP) but does not work on parisc-linux running > the HP branded XL2 HBA. The cpqfc driver is now a source forge > project if anyone wants to work on it. > > I've cleaned up cpqfc so it at least loads/unloads as a module > and committed those changes to cvs.parisc-linux.org. cpqfc maintainers > are also aware of the patches. > The patched should still available from ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/patches. > I don't know if they have been applied or pushed to marcello/linus. > The patches don't provide a solution; just a step in that direction. > > > We have 4 of them that were working fine > > under HP/UX but now we've switched those hp/ux i2 machines over to linux > > and would like the cards to work with linux now. > > The right people who can fix this are now working for Wild Open Source. > They just need the right incentive ($$$) to work on it a bit. > (HP would not support the result - but it still might be useful.) > > HP-UX IO folks are not interested in investing a substantial amount > of R&D and product testing to commercialize this XL2 HBA for ia64-linux. > I've explored this path pretty thoroughly hoping I could leverage > for my pet project, parisc-linux. > > hth, > grant > > ps. sorry, I can't provide additional specifics for HP/Linux product > plans - please don't bother asking. Please talk to your HP sales/support > reps if you don't like the above answer. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 >Received on Tue Jun 03 14:08:59 2003
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