From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Dec 12 03:13:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA11530 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 03:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fox.doc.ic.ac.uk (fox.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA11524 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 03:13:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from md@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from dialup09.doc.ic.ac.uk ([146.169.43.72] helo=doc.ic.ac.uk ident=md) by fox.doc.ic.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zomyT-0006MP-00; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:12:38 +0000 Message-ID: <36725B3C.A3651482@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 12:02:04 +0000 From: Mark Dawson Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: Michael Hancock , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPQ Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers References: <19981212134131.M457@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 ). 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message