Hi Michael, On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 09:47 +0800, michael wang wrote: > Andy, > > Thank you for your great help. You are sure that Fedora supports > Qlogic 2660 16G FC HBA card, right? I'm wondering if qla2xxx only > means to support Qlogic 24xx or 25xx (4G, 8G FC). > FYI, 26xx series target mode (16G FC) support went into the v3.9.x kernel. So any v3.9.x based kernel should work for you. > On the other hand, I will install some other services under CentOS. Do > you think if it is possible that I could get FC target running under > CentOS? > The distro is irrelevant here.. Also, in order to help diagnose your issue, the full targetcli configuration output, along with the specific hardware configuration of WWPNs from the 2660s would be helpful. --nab > Thank you. > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/02/2013 12:30 AM, michael wang wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to create a 16G FC target with LIO software, the topology is > >> simple. > >> I use one Dell 7010MT desktop PC to directly connect to Dell R720 > >> server. I installed Qlogic 16G FC HBA in both PC and server (Qlogic > >> 2660). > >> > >> Here is the setup process - > >> > >> a. Installed Qlogic 16G FC HBA card (model 2660), and configured RAID > >> 5 on R720 with BIOS setup; > >> b. Installed CentOS 6.4 x64 version; > >> c. Upgrade Linux kernel from 2.6.32.xxx to 3.9.11 (stable version); > >> d. Configured LIO with targetcli command - There is a new TCM_FC > >> target detected; > >> d.1 created a fileio backstore; > >> d.2 instantiated a target; > >> d.3 exported a LUN 0; > >> d.4 defined access right which allows another FC initiator to access > >> > >> Please note that there is no any error message during the LIO setup. > >> But, after all these configurations completed, we found that PC can > >> not detect the target. So, anyone could tell me why? > > > > > > tcm_fc doesn't support Qlogic FC HBAs, the fact that targetcli detects it as > > tcm_fc is a limitation in the version of rtslib-fb that ships in RHEL 6. > > > > qla2xxx *is* supported on Fedora, however. I'd recommend getting it working > > first there, see: > > > > http://groveronline.com/2013/05/using-qla2xxx-with-lio-on-fedora/ > > > > and then look to moving it to a different distro only after that, if > > desired. > > > > Regards -- Andy > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
