How to set up an Infiniband SRP Target

Although it is possible to run iSCSI over InfiniBand via IPoIB, the iSER and SRP protocols yield significantly better performance on an InfiniBand network. An iSER implementation for Linux is available via the tgt project and an SRP implementation for Linux is available via the SCST project. Regarding Windows support: at this time there is no iSER initiator driver available for Windows. But an SRP initiator driver for Windows is available in the winOFED software package (see also the openfabrics.org website).

In the off chance that the block device is being detected, but no /dev/ device is being created, you can manually create the device. This isn't optimal, but might limp you along. The major and minor numbers are presented in /proc/partitions, and you can create your own block devices through the mknod command.

 # mknod /dev/sdg4 104 17

However, I feel your pain. QLogic offers driver download for RHEL and SUSE but it seems no other distros. OpenSUSE just might have the QLogic-branded drivers but I can't be certain of it. I'll check closer when I get to work.

Edit: I'm at work, and it does seem that the QLogic drivers on my SLES boxes are all the QLogic supplied one. Their OS support grid:

http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/Driver/71098/readme_driver_80223.html#os_support

And yet, when I download the bog-standard 2.6.27.25 kernel and look in the ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_version.h file it is nearly the same version numbers as I have on my Novell distros (both SLES, and the free openSUSE). Which suggests that the solution you found for SLES/RHEL may actually work with a standard 2.6.27.25 kernel.