Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:21:26 +0100 (MET) From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Any experience with (Compaq I guess) CPQ 001373 Disc Array Controller Message-ID: <199611202121.WAA00331@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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Does anyone have experience with FreeBSD with a (Compaq I guess) CPQ 001373 Disc Array Controller ? Is it usable with FreeBSD ? It's a strange beast: A full width EISA card, that runs 2 * 200M discs in parallel & pretends to be 1 * 400M drive. The `pretends' bit is all done on the card I think/hope, at least, there's no hint of it in config.sys & autoexec.bat. I'm asking before I try, because I don't have full flops to rebuild this system back to DOS if I fail (just config & diag. flops), so I want to go carefully. I plugged in a 2.1.0 boot flop, & it got as far as ...... wd0: 405 Mb 829584 sectors 823 cyls 16 heads, 63 secs/track, 512 B/S ...... rootfs is 1000Kbyte compiled in MFS then crashed ( did the 15 sec reboot ) Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode presumably 'cos it wants more than 4M to install. (No prob. I used to build unices by hand way back when, & have added a 2nd fd1.) Other info I have is: The 2 drives in the sys. are Conner CP3201: nearest info I have is for 2 similar models as listed in CT mag. 1990 Heft 12 P319: Name, Form MB,Interf, ModuLat,Cyls, Heads, SPT CP-3200F, 213, scsi, 2.7, 1366, 8, 38 CP-3204F, 213, at , 2.7, 1366, 8, 38 The Disc Array Controller card is in a Compaq Model 3000: EISA with a 386 (no 387 FPU) & with 2 * 2M modules, (the modules are credit card sized with 2 IDP conn.s) so I can't plug in my spare `normal' ram, so I'm stuck at 4M. Why am I bothering ? I was given the box, & hate to see old hardware turned off :-) & plan to use it as a modem firewall at home, lightly loaded, leaving my bigger better `current' boxes safe behind the wall :-) PS 1742s (EISA) are dirt cheap now (~$40) so I was thinking of buying one of those too, + shoving in a compulsory ethernet. Any comments (beside `Bury It Deep' ;-) ? Julian --- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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