Good evening, I hope the week is going well for everyone. The weather service started mumbling last night about eight more inches of snow getting dumped on West-Central Minnesota so I figured if I was going to get a last weekend of cross-country skiing in I had better finish the week down at the lake before driving on the interstate got bad. So I loaded the pickup and pushed Izzy our Golden Retriever into the cab and headed out. On the way down he convinced me that since most of the weekend would be spent working on the chicken cruncher code we should get a new release of the SCST/Qlogic interface driver out now that the kinks seemed to be worked out of the Selective Retransmission Request (SRR) handling. So any Qlogic HBA customers or storage OEM's who are interested in running the SCST storage stack on the latest generation Qlogic HBA's and CNA's can pick up version 1.1 of the SCST Qlogic Adapter (SQA) interface driver at the following URL: ftp://ftp.enjellic.com/pub/scst/sqa_driver-1.1.tar.gz The interface driver has been subjected to enough abuse and traffic at this point that we elected to remove the 'beta' designation with this release. As with any storage product, ** ALWAYS **, evaluate the product carefully for suitability in the intended environment. This interface driver was developed for and is in production use in a large Cisco/Nexus fibre-channel/FCOE environment. It has been tested with the Qlogic 8362 CNA and 2672 HBA running in CNA personality mode as well as the 24xx and 25xx families of fibre-channel adapters. While not tested I would not anticipate any issues with 2672 HBA's running in 16 GBPS FC mode. This driver provides the interface 'glue' which allows SCST to use the in-kernel qla2xxx core and target driver code. It plays the same role for SCST that the tcm_qla2xxx code does for the in-kernel LIO target. Its now starting to snow out and despite the fact that I'm chucking wood into the stove as fast as I can it is only about 49 degress in the cabin. Izzy has commandeered the bed since its the only warm spot so I'm going to heat up a couple of pieces of pizza and wrap up in a blanket in front of the stove. Best wishes to everyone in Linux storage land for a similarily enjoyable evening/weekend. Greg and Izzy As always, Dr. Greg Wettstein, Ph.D. Enjellic Systems Development, LLC. 4206 N. 19th Ave. Specializing in information infra-structure Fargo, ND 58102 development. PH: 701-281-1686 FAX: 701-281-3949 EMAIL: greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "A computer is like a horse, it will sense weakness." -- Greg Wettstein GAUSSIAN quote. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
