"Coincidentally", I have just received an update from QLogic in which they emphasize their will to ship us the promised HBAs. Please pause your efforts in sending emails to QLogic for now - it seems it already has helped a lot.
I will update you as soon as I hear back from them, which should be end of this week. Thanks guys. On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:59 +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > In October 2007 I have established contact with QLogic, to investigate > whether they could help us in making iSCSI HBAs work in OpenBSD by > donating some hardware and by providing free programming documentation. > > o;?Unfortunately, Qlogic has chosen to be difficult. This means, I am > forced to make this private communication public to show our user base > the truth about how I and all OpenBSD people have been led along and > lied to by QLogic. Now it's up to us (=you) to show that we won't put up > with that. > > This is the original email conversation between me and QLogic, mainly > Pompey S. Nagra, product manager iSCSI HBAs: > > http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~stephan/qlogic-lies.txt > > After you have read this page, please send an email to the following > people, cite this conversation and request (politely) shipping of the > promised hardware. Do not cite any developer names, QLogic very well > knows who we are and where they should ship the HBAs to (but do cite my > name and the link to the converstation): > > Pompey S. Nagra : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > o;?David Clark: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Amit Vashi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please make this issue as public as possible. It would be nice to also > have it on undeadly and other media. > -- Stephan A. Rickauer ----------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Neuroinformatics Tel +41 44 635 30 50 University / ETH Zurich Sec +41 44 635 30 52 Winterthurerstrasse 190 Fax +41 44 635 30 53 CH-8057 Zurich Web www.ini.uzh.ch
