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Win9x booting from SAN (Fibre Channel)

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First post, by marcin512

Posted on 2022-02-27, 22:00

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Hi,
I'm sharing some info about another project I made few yrs ago - Win9x booting from SAN - Fibre Channel edition. The idea is to use a Linux server with SCST service hosting block device exposed via FC port connected to Win9x machine. The card for Win9X is QLogic QLA2100. There was a problem with finding a suitable driver for Win9X as such driver doesn't exist. But for a windows kernel developer it isn't a big issue if you're motivated enough. The speeds are crazy:

SATA drive using Promise FastTrak S150:

Linux SSD using QLA2100:

Some other pics (the pics come from my first attempt - QLA2000 + LIO, was later switched to QLA2100 + SCST):

😀

Last edited by marcin512 on 2022-07-27, 18:11. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 2, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2022-02-27, 22:16

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Very nice!

Are you going to publish your fibe card's homemade driver for 98SE?

Cheers,

Great Northern aka Canada.

Reply 2 of 2, by marcin512

Posted on 2022-02-28, 16:57

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Sure. Give me some time. I need to locate these drivers on my HDD. However on some systems depending on HW configuration (location of device in IO space - device manager) if address is different than the default it needs to be patched (single dword at specific location - very easy).

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