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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:02:04 +0000
From:      Mark Dawson <md@doc.ic.ac.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CPQ Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers
Message-ID:  <36725B3C.A3651482@doc.ic.ac.uk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981212114150.23458A-100000@sv01.cet.co.jp> <19981212134131.M457@freebie.lemis.com>

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> On Saturday, 12 December 1998 at 11:45:40 +0900, Michael Hancock wrote:
> > http://www.insync.net/~frantzc/cpqarray.html
> >
> > It's for Linux and GPL'ed but at least source is available and Compaq
> > appears to be providing specs to the author.

It includes helpful headers describing all the controller commands.  As the
email contact given is 'arrays@compaq.com' I suspect that the author is a Compaq
employee.

> Jordan gave him block major 29.  I don't know what happened with the
> character major, which he'll also need, so possibly he hasn't got very far.

I now have block#29 and character#109 and will use these for the "non-cuckoo
version" of the driver (i.e. the driver steals the vectors of the wdc if it sees
a Smart controller on boot - this allows me to install FreeBSD in the usual way
on a pure-RAID system - details at
<URL:http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~md/ida/README>).

I should add that, using this driver, FreeBSD has been running on the Compaq
Smart family of controllers without snags for over three years now.

Mark



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