Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:00:15 +0900 | From | Hironobu Ishii <> | Subject | Re: Hp/Compaq Fibre HBA |
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Hi Dan and Martin,
> >Did I send this question to the wrong group? > > > >On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 13:18, Danny Brow wrote: > >> Any one know if there are drivers for a storageworks fibre channel > host > >> bus adapter /p. The chip set is Tachyon HPFC-5000c/3.0, the card > also > >> has this number on it HHBA - 5000A. > >> > >> TIA, > >> > >> Dan. > >> > Dan,
I'm afraid there is no linux driver for that card. Agilent calls HPFC-5000C as "Classic Tachyon".
"drivers/net/fc" is a driver that controls Classic Tachyon. But I don't know whether it works as SCSI driver. (I'm afraid it doesn't.) Basically, it's a driver for Interphase 5526 PCI FC card.
Classic Tachyon has a TSI(Tachyon System Interface) bus. So every Classic Tachyon based PCI-HBA has its own bus bridge chip.
Interphase's bridge chip was called as i-chip. If HHBA-5000A uses a i-chip as a bridge, you might be able to use that driver. Are there any Interphase logo on HHBA-5000A?
> > not sure about the group. Maybe it is just that nobody has a good > answer. I was having similar problems with regard to another Tachyon > [XL2]based HP card.Lack of Linux support prevented basically a working > dual-boot solution (HP-UX vs. Linux) on couple of rx5670 boxes. > > At that time a nice folk at HP basically told me that: "it could be > done, but we are looking for funding one or two consultants". > > One of the problems involved seems to be documentation on the Tachyon > chips. As usual. Another reason (for those liking conspiracy theories) > might be market(ing) segmentation by HP. But I'm just being paranoid > here :-) > > Martin > PS: have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpqfc - but I fear > it is not very actively maintained :-(
cpqfc is a driver for Tachyon TL/TS(HPFC-51xx), XL2(HPFC-5200) and DX2(HPFC-5400).
Hironobu Ishii.
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