Re: Hp/Compaq Fibre HBA

From: Danny Brow (fms_at_istop.com)
Date: 11/27/03

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    To: Hironobu Ishii <ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:05:36 -0500

    This is all the information on the card.

    Tachyon
    HPFC-5000c/3.0
    L2A0729

    &

    NEC
    Compaq 194789-002
    UPD65806GD-071
    9733PU003

    On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 06:00, Hironobu Ishii wrote:
    > 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.
    >
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