[lug] Fiber channel card that works with the stock RHEL 4 Kernel?

[Dan Ferris]

Just make sure you use at least RHEL4.  RHEL3 is horrible in a SAN 
environment.  At least with RHEL4 you get real multipathing.  Plus Veritas 
Volume Manager 4.1 will run on RHEL4 32 bit.

Dan

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Bryan H Shelton wrote:

> Thanks guys.  I checked out their website and they look great.
>
> Thanks again,
> Bryan
>
> On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:14 PM, steve at badcheese.com wrote:
>
>> I've also had good luck with QLogic cards.
>> 
>> - Steve
>> 
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Dan Ferris wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:45:07 -0600 (MDT)
>>> From: Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com>
>>> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>>>    <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>>> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>>>    <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>>> Subject: Re: [lug] Fiber channel card that works with the stock RHEL 4 
>>> Kernel?
>>> Qlogic cards work pretty well.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Bryan H Shelton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all.  We're looking for a good fiber channel card, or card 
>>>> manufacturer, for a linux box running RHEL4 that has either native 
>>>> support in the kernel or good support for compiling the kernel modules 
>>>> into the RHEL 4 kernel. We're wanting to attach our linux box to an Apple 
>>>> XRaid.  If anyone has tried some fiber channel cards they've been happy 
>>>> with, I'd appreciate some advice.
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Bryan Shelton
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