From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Dec 12 05:08:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22071 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 05:08:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pigeon.doc.ic.ac.uk (pigeon.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22066 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 05:08:38 -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 pigeon.doc.ic.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.890 #1) id 0zoomX-0005fO-00; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 13:08:26 +0000 Message-ID: <36727661.5ECD7FCC@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 13:57:53 +0000 From: Mark Dawson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Hancock CC: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPQ Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael, > I knew about this driver, but it was unclear if there were any legal > issues w/ Compaq. When I enquired about this through a Compaq support person two years ago I received an email saying there was no need to be concerned. Indeed the santified release of the Linux driver means they have now put the controller interface in the public domain. > Aside from the block and character numbers are there > any issues that would prevent this code from being committed to the CVS > repository? My main requirement is that I can install FreeBSD on hardware that only has RAID disks. For this to work the installation boot floppy needs to know about Smart as a boot device. David James has built a series of such cuckoo-enabled floppies for FreeBSD-2.x. He also has patches that allow FBSD to boot natively and these would also need to be merged and committed. > I'd like to run FBSD on the Proliant 1850R. Should be no problem. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message