From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 16: 9:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8EF14D1F; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02816; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001150016.QAA02816@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gediminas Vilutis Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Smart Array 221 on non Compaq servers In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:38:26 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:16:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > We have a problem with Compaq Smart Array 221 controller. We are trying to > use it on non-Compaq server (Intel LB440GX 2U server system, with > Intel L440GX+ motherboard). > > The problem we encountered is that we can't setup RAID array. I.e., > FreeBSD (and Linux) drivers sees controller correctly, but all Compaq > utilities, that we were able to find, are either NT based (haven't tried > them yet) or complain that motherboard doesn't support some function (ecc > error checking on pci bus or something like that). > > So, does anybody know how to setup a RAID array on this controller? Or is > that controller dead thing on non-compaq servers? Compaq controllers are intended by Compaq to only be used in Compaq servers. Under some circumstances you might get lucky otherwise, but as a general rule you can forget using them in any other system. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message