Re: Rules of the Road for Fibre Channel Interop
From: Andy (aseltzer_at_evenenterprises.com)
Date: 02/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:17:23 GMT
In article <103hi2afl41qv24@corp.supernews.com>, cdmccane@directlink.net
says...
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>Being relatively new to fibre channel, I need to gain more awareness of what
>works and what to expect. Maybe some gurus here on usenet can help. I
>discovered that my Sun X6730A (FC100/S) card will not correctly communicate
>with a Clariion FC5700 DPER. I don't understand why. Doesn't everyone follow
>the ANSI standard for Fibre Channel? Is the standard kinda "loose" or what?
>I've seen a number of shops with large systems that had Fibre Channel cards
>from 2 or 3 different vendors talking to arrays from different vendors. I
>never really considered why. I think I'm beginning to get a clue about
>this.
> In my configuration I can see one device out on the Fibre Channel. It is
>identified as a DGC (Data General, creator of Clariion). This device has 3
>LUN's available (yes, I already did the sd.conf). But any further
>communication beyond the format command to see available drives results in
>"SCSI transport failed: reason 'timeout': retrying command."
> It seems like connecting an FC100/S to a Clariion is like breaking the
>main law of Fibre Channel: Never expect interoperability between any two
>given devices. Is that true or am I just making some kind of configuration
>mistake with the drivers or the OS? Any help is appreciated.
>
some of the FC HBA manufacturers have special EMC drives that you
can download from their site
while some of the others make "oem" versions specially for EMC
enviornments
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