I have several servers with QLogic fibre-channel HBAs in the ISP24xx series, notably the ISP2432. This card has been removed from the C8 kernel's ID list. I looked at ELrepo, but there's not a kmod for the qla2xxx like there is for megaraid_sas (which I'm using; many thanks to ELrepo), and I don't see the qla2xxx referenced in the patchlist for the CentOS Plus kernel-plus packages.
Anyone else here using these older 4Gb fibre-channel cards with C8? The Bugzilla number referenced by the changelog (1572233) is of course not accessible, even when I'm logged in and have a valid subscription to RHEL; I would like to know the rationale (similar to target mode on qla2xxx; apparently a 'management' decision to not support; I would love to just know why).
I know 4Gb fibre-channel isn't exactly exciting tech these days, but I have a lot of storage that uses it that isn't going to be upgraded any time soon. I have a ton of ISP2464 cards, but they're just a bit too large to fit in a Dell PE1950. Yeah, might be a bit old but they still have a lot of life left in them for lots of uses!
On 16/06/2020 14:36, Lamar Owen wrote:
I have several servers with QLogic fibre-channel HBAs in the ISP24xx series, notably the ISP2432. This card has been removed from the C8 kernel's ID list.
I suspect you should raise an RFE on the ELRepo bugtracker and ask for the kmod to be created.
Trevor
On 16/06/2020 14:47, Trevor Hemsley via CentOS-devel wrote:
On 16/06/2020 14:36, Lamar Owen wrote:
I have several servers with QLogic fibre-channel HBAs in the ISP24xx series, notably the ISP2432. This card has been removed from the C8 kernel's ID list.
I suspect you should raise an RFE on the ELRepo bugtracker and ask for the kmod to be created.
Trevor
An RFE has been filed here:
On 6/16/20 9:36 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
I have several servers with QLogic fibre-channel HBAs in the ISP24xx series, notably the ISP2432. This card has been removed from the C8 kernel's ID list.
Thanks for the heads-up on this. How did you check the ID list?
I have some ISP-2532 cards (8 Gb) and assumed they would work, but would like to verify before kickstarting the box. lspci says:
04:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 02)
On 6/16/20 11:22 AM, Chris Schanzle via CentOS-devel wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up on this. How did you check the ID list?
I have some ISP-2532 cards (8 Gb) and assumed they would work, but would like to verify before kickstarting the box. lspci says:
I don't remember exactly how I found it (might have been a search, might have been the ELrepo driver update disk page, don't remember), but you can look at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm... and get an idea. The ELrepo DUD page ( http://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-ad... ) has other pointers. I used an ELrepo DUD myself to install C8 on a Dell PowerEdge 1950; worked fine, just had to remember to enable ELrepo before updating to 8.2.2004 yesterday. You can get the actual PCI ID by using lspci -n and grep the output for the PCI bus enumerator (04:00.0 in your case).
Using the DUD was dirt-simple: dd the DUD ISO to a small USB key, have the USB key in a USB port during installation, install picks up anything with a label of OEMKEY. The ELrepo pages say more.
On 16/06/2020 16:22, Chris Schanzle via CentOS-devel wrote:
On 6/16/20 9:36 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
I have several servers with QLogic fibre-channel HBAs in the ISP24xx series, notably the ISP2432. This card has been removed from the C8 kernel's ID list.
Thanks for the heads-up on this. How did you check the ID list?
I have some ISP-2532 cards (8 Gb) and assumed they would work, but would like to verify before kickstarting the box. lspci says:
The 2532 is still supported by the distro driver.
alias: pci:v00001077d00002532sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
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