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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Berlin <root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What kind of SCSI controller is in a Compaq Proliant 3000?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9810072316090.11543-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981007185625.A3740@emsphone.com>

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They prolly pulled a Diamond and changed the vendor ID on it.
If it's symbios, it's a 876.
If it's adaptec, it's a 7895.
 
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Oct 07), sthaug@nethelp.no said:
> > Just got my hands on a nice shiny new Compaq Proliant 3000 server (yes,
> > I know Compaqs are weird in some ways, but this is beyond my control).
> > I'd like to install FreeBSD on it, but the problem is that no SCSI disk
> > controller is detected (and thus no SCSI disks) by the 3.0 boot disk.
> > The standard Proliant 3000 config:
> > 
> > 	http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/proliant3000/index.html
> > 
> > mentions a dual channel wide-ultra SCSI-3 controller, and this is indeed
> > what the BIOS claims it has.
> 
> I believe all of the Compaq SCSI adaptors (except possible the RAID
> ones) are Symbios/NCR chipsets.  At least out Proliant 2500 is, and
> there is just one Compaq SCSI HAM driver for Netware, so it must cover
> all the Compaq cards.
> 
> 	-Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@emsphone.com
> 
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