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January 24, 2006
Once more into the hellmouth...
At work, we're creating a new SAN out of more-or-less off the shelf gear. We have a hodge-podge of operating systems: Novell (primary SAN user), FreeBSD, Linux, Irix, Solaris. We decided to go with our favorite el-cheapo RAID cabinet vendor, ACNC for their high-density SATA-FC units, and the qlogic starter SAN kits for HBAs and switches.
Anywho, I've been on the spear's end for this, which is exciting. I was having problems getting FreeBSD to work with the qlogic HBAs, however. The isp driver was loading, but the JetStor unit was not being detected by the OS (despite being seen by the card's BIOS). It turns out that the ispfw module needs to not be a kernel module, but rather needs to be compiled in the kernel, for it to work properly with the isp driver being compiled in. Go figure.
Here's hoping Google indexes this, so some other poor sap doesn't spend half of forever cursing before figuring out they need a custom kernel :)
Posted by jeff at January 24, 2006 02:07 PM