[TriLUG] installing and booting from fibre

[Magnus]

On 5/17/06, Matt Dinsmore <matt at centrix.net> wrote:
>
> Have you tried using the qlogic drivers? or are you just using drivers
> provided with RHEL4? We're using emulex hardware, so we installed their
> drivers and tools and it seems to be ok as long as we leave sdb alone.
> With the emulex drivers, it automagically does multipathing, we tested
> this the other day, so I know RHEL4 is capable of it.


And, importantly, don't set up the second HBA until after the OS and
Emulex/Qlogic drivers are installed.  In the context of the environment that
started this thread, that's going to be hard since it's one HBA with dual
paths.  But a lot about that environment is different from what Matt & I are
doing.