Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 21:17:32 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Mark Dawson <md@doc.ic.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPQ Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981212210943.24848A-100000@sv01.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <36725B3C.A3651482@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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Mark, I knew about this driver, but it was unclear if there were any legal issues w/ Compaq. Aside from the block and character numbers are there any issues that would prevent this code from being committed to the CVS repository? I'd like to run FBSD on the Proliant 1850R. Regards, Mike Hancock On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Mark Dawson wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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