From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 14 13:14:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB51F14E47 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:14:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15345; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:13:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:13:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Gediminas Vilutis Cc: "Waite, Michael" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Compaq Smart Array 221 on non Compaq servers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Gediminas Vilutis wrote: > The problem is that i'm trying to use this controller not in ProLiant > server (as i have mentioned, it is Intel LB440GX system with L440GX+ > motherboard). After I try to boot from CD, configuration utility just > says "this system is not supported by this version of SmartStart" and > installation stops. > > So, does this controller work not in ProLiant servers? Compaq IDA and Smart array controllers may only be configured in Compaq servers. I suspect that the config utilities are calling some Compaq BIOS interrupt and bailing when it doesn't work. Some work with debug may allow you to NOP out the offending call. I've been intending to do this myself but I don't have a supported IDA adapter, nor do I have an array of disks to use with the adapter. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message