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Old June 1st 05, 12:37 AM
Will
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The answer is no for QLogic. I've heard rumors the answer is yes with
Emulex, but I haven't had the time to figure it out. RA4100 is very
proprietary stuff, that's for sure.

I'll look for the jumpers and hopefully that will work.

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Will
Internet: westes AT earthbroadcast.com


"NuTCrAcKeR" wrote in message
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what HBA's are you using? its less a function of the FCAL bridge/switch

you
are using, and more a factor of the HBA's. True, the RA4x00 doesnt allow

you
to boot from that storage whilst using the StorageWorks /P (32bit and

64bit)
adapters, but I have often wondered if it could be bootable (if properly
presented) to a QLogic or Emulex HBA that has the boot bios on the card.

- LC

"Will" wrote in message
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I'm using an ADIC fibre channel bridge in front of a straight SCSI LVD
4214R
enclosure.

We want to be able to boot from the drives in the enclosure, which is

why
we
didn't use the RA4100 for this application. That controller works fine
for
data but simply doesn't get seen as a boot device, probably because the
special Compaq fibre channel host adapters have no configurable BIOS and
cannot have BIOS enabled.

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Will
Internet: westes AT earthbroadcast.com


"NuTCrAcKeR" wrote in message
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FibreChannel ... is that an RA4000 or RA4100? Some other HPaq
fibrechannel
system ?

- LC