[Info-vax] Error using fibre channel target on FreeBSD from OpenVMS

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 4/24/2022 2:18 AM, Matthew R. Wilson wrote:
> This could be a long shot, but I'm hoping to experiment with OpenVMS
> clustering using a shared system disk over fibre channel.
> 
> My two VMS systems are Integrity rx1600s. I'm trying to use a system
> running FreeBSD as the target. After much experimentation and
> troubleshooting, I've gotten pretty far, but the volumes are still stuck
> "offline" in OpenVMS.

I'm inferring that there is no fibre switch between VMS and the "storage array".

VMS does not support FC-AL (arbitrated loop).

That's probably among the issues.

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                  -- Rob