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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:07:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, bsdalpha@fadesa.es
Subject:   Re: KZPCC-CE SCSI controller
Message-ID:  <200508011307.14737.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <42EE50C3.5C01C564@fadesa.es>
References:  <42EE1A34.6510B1CE@fadesa.es> <20050801151501.GA53593@freebie.xs4all.nl> <42EE50C3.5C01C564@fadesa.es>

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On Monday 01 August 2005 12:41 pm, Jos=E9 M. Fandi=F1o wrote:
> Hello Wilko,
>
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > >   I got a DS20E which has a KZPCC-CE (LVD 3-ch, 64MB cache) SCSI
> > >
> > > will I be able to use this controller with FreeBSD?
> >
> > Well, I guess you are the first one to try this hardware.  I do
> > have DS20[E] available in the lab at work, but not this RAID card.
>
>  Well, I would like to try this card with FBSD.
>
> > Would be interesting to know if it works or not, then we can go and
> > add it into the default GENERIC for FreeBSD/alpha install cds.
>
>  but how is supposed I can test the controller under FreeBSD if
> FreeBSD can't detect it with the ISO images.
>
> some photos of the alpha gear, sorry for the bad quality and size
> fortunately for me I don't live of the photography ;)
>
> You can see the KZPCC card before I moved it to hose 0, it's
> weird because I have the manuals for the -CE model but there
> is a label with the -XE reference on it.

I asked the asr(4) driver maintainer and he said it isn't 64-bit clean, so =
it=20
is almost certainly not going to work on Alpha without a lot of work.

=2D-=20
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