Re: oracle linux

  • From: "jason arneil" <jason.arneil@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raindoctor@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:12:34 +0100

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.

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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.
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