Re: Target mode support for qlogic chipsets isp2422/2432/5422/5432

2007-10-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
Hey- this is great stuff. This means I can finally give up on my stuff for linux now that there's some better and more integral stuff in place. Woo Hoo! On 10/23/07, Seokmann Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thayumanavar Sachithanantham wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Does the recent target mode support

Re: generating a Linux WWN?

2007-10-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
> But having a WWN generator in the kernel, although not terribly > difficult to write, makes it possible to create an inconsistent > storage domain. It is that possibility which troubles me, > due to the intention of SAS WWNs. But one should make sure that you *do* create a consistent storage do

Re: generating a Linux WWN?

2007-10-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > The generation algorithm is whatever makes people happy. I would > probably pick a fixed prefix like 0x6C 0x69 0x63 ("lin"), something that > doesn't conflict with IEEE org ids for a long time to come. Then, > get_random_bytes() or hash some useful machine characteristics for the > rest of th

Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > some sought of documentation for this, please let me know. > NPIV is a feature to provide multiple path available on one physical port and > it has implemented based on the multiport ID (MID) capability on the switch. > So, you have to have the switch with MID capable on the configuration to

Re: Very slow writes with mptsas

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
The FreeBSD problem was fixed by Scott Long a couple of days ago by doing some cut through SAS stuff that enabled Write Cache for SATA drives. Why LSI-Logic couldn't just blitheringly synthesize mode page 8 is beyond me, but okay. I dunno whether the issue here is the same one Scott tackled- prob

Re: [Scst-devel] Problems with SCST and QLA 2432 FC Cards

2007-05-18 Thread Matthew Jacob
That´s a very nice initiativ! Though I believe the most important target driver to develope is one for a PCI-Express HBA. I believe QLA24xx stands for PCI-X, doesn´t it? And the PCI-Express HBA is called QLE-something? But maybe with this driver we will come closer to a PCI-Express HBA target driv

Re: [Scst-devel] Problems with SCST and QLA 2432 FC Cards

2007-05-18 Thread Matthew Jacob
Unfortunately, 24xx+ cards have very different interface, so add support for them is almost the same as write another driver. Not completely- but close. Feel free to grab ftp://ftp.feral.com/pub/isp/isp_dist.tgz as an example for code to add to scst. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

RESEND: [ PATCH ] externalize (new) scsi timer function (fwd)

2001-01-22 Thread Matthew Jacob
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:19:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RESEND: [ PATCH ] externalize (new) scsi timer function I sent