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

[Bryan H Shelton]

We are interested in fiber because we purchased an Apple XRaid, which  
we've been really happy with, and fiber is the only way to access it  
directly.  Honestly given our size we probably wouldn't be looking at  
the fiber technology were this not the case.  QLogic, which was  
recommended earlier to me, does make a small and medium size business  
fiber HBA.  Because Apple pushed the XRaid out with only fiber  
access, they sold a relatively inexpensive fiber HBA for their  
hardware at the time we purchased the XRaid.  I haven't tried to see  
if it will work in linux, it looks like a branded LSI Logic card.

Bryan
On Apr 3, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Dan Ferris wrote:

> Why?  The Fibre Channel devices are almost exclusively large  
> enterprise disk arrays, or tape libraries.  Unless you go with 4 gb/ 
> sec it is still slower than Ultra 320 SCSI (which is cheaper).
>
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, siegfried wrote:
>
>> Now I'm curious. Is there such a thing as a consumer grade fiber  
>> channel
>> card for a consumer grade disk and a consumer grade PC?
>>
>> What are some brand names and models?
>> Thanks,
>> Siegfried
>>
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