For some time now, you do tend to get the Qlogic drivers installed as part of your O/S install rather than having to download a seperate Qlogic driver. jason. -- http://jarneil.wordpress.com Though whether your SAN vendor has their own version of the Qlogic Driver is another question, certainly I know EMC seem quite kee On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Pedro Espinoza <raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Scsi commands are transported over fibre channel to the controllers on the > SAN (now there is iscsi: scsi over tcp/ip). So, what you need is: fc drivers > on your host along with fc card. If you use qlogic card, you gotta install > qlogic drivers. You buy fc cards or you buy your boxes with fc cards > installed: for instance, sun/hp ships their boxes with qlogic and some other > cards. So, sun and hp supplies 'free' drivers for them. > > > > do you have to purchase this 3rd party software for oracle enterprise linux >> ? Its not vendor specific to the SAN. >> > > Depends on who manufactured your fc card, and get that driver. > > >