Re: oracle linux

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_at_gmail.com>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.

>

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>

> 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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