From: Hironobu Ishii <ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: knobi@knobisoft.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fms@istop.com
Subject: Re: Hp/Compaq Fibre HBA
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:00:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <016501c3b4d5$aa4b2130$2987110a@lsd.css.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031126110558.16044.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-27 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 11:05 Hp/Compaq Fibre HBA Martin Knoblauch
2003-11-27 11:00 ` Hironobu Ishii [this message]
2003-11-27 16:05 ` Danny Brow
2003-11-28 7:05 ` Hironobu Ishii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-24 18:18 Danny Brow
2003-11-26 9:32 ` Danny Brow
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='016501c3b4d5$aa4b2130$2987110a@lsd.css.fujitsu.com' \
--to=ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com \
--cc=fms@istop.com \
--cc=knobi@knobisoft.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).